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Chez Jallot - Grand Designs - A French manor house renovated | Grand Designs French Manor HouseThis adventure aboriginal appeared in the Nov. 1 affair of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
When Mark Wahlberg went attractive for an artist for his 6-acre allotment of prime Beverly Hills absolute estate, he zeroed in on Richard Landry, one of the city's best in-demand designers and the hands-down baron of Beverly Park mansions. Hot off the heels of commutual Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's eco-manse in Brentwood, the Quebec-born artist has become the go-to dream-home artist for a assertive set of audience who like their homes awful personalized, absolutely clandestine and acutely abounding back it comes to aboveboard footage.
As Landry enters the homestretch of the Wahlberg project, which has been beneath architecture for about two years with artist John Finton, the French manor-style abode assuredly is demography shape. All told, the capital abode and bedfellow barrio add up to 30,000 aboveboard anxiety (Bundchen and Brady's home, by contrast, is about absolutely bisected that size; and Wahlberg's above Beverly Hills residence, which awash in October for $12.995 million, abstinent a bald 11,500 aboveboard feet). But Landry is quick to point out that the Wahlberg family's new manse isn't chargeless grand. "My ambition consistently has to go with award the appropriate proportions. It is not about architecture bigger and bigger homes," says Landry, who has advised houses for Haim Saban, Wayne Gretzky, Sugar Ray Leonard and Rod Stewart in assorted architectural styles. "There are no ginormous apartment actuality -- there's no ballroom, no bowling alley, no calm basketball court. I've done best of those kinds of things in added projects, but actuality it's absolutely a acceptable acceptable ancestors abode with no applesauce to it."
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Grand Designs French House : The Good Life France | Grand Designs French Manor HouseIn this case, the acceptable ancestors abode includes a home theater, wine cellar, all-embracing gym, a double-height, wood-paneled library, a putting blooming and a large, rock-scaped basin with a avalanche and diving bedrock that Landry had congenital into the hillside location.
Add to that a 2,200-square-foot arcade with coffered ceilings, limestone floors and a fireplace. The abandoned affair the alfresco allowance will lack, he says, are bottle windows. "There's alike activity to be accoutrement for the alfresco room."
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Knauf Insulation's grand TV debut | Knauf Insulation UK | Grand Designs French Manor HouseBut it turns out that the Wahlberg acreage is absolute diminutive compared to some of Landry's added projects -- a alternation of extensive projects with extraordinary square-footage statistics.
The artist is architecture a 32,000-square-foot abreast in Bahrain, a 200,000-square-foot French-style single-family home abreast Shanghai and a 250,000-square-foot, eight-building, hypermodern admixture in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Then there's the high-end subdivision in Qingdao, China, that will accommodate 40 homes that will be 25,000 aboveboard anxiety each. "For all of these, I'll be application the aforementioned abstracts I use actuality -- French limestone, brownish windows, Vermont slate. Those are the kinds of articles activity into these homes," he says. Countless added projects in China, Malaysia and Japan additionally are actuality developed by Landry, forth with his agents of 45.
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Chateau de Resistance: Five storeys, seven bedrooms - and yours ... | Grand Designs French Manor HouseAdd up all of his accepted residential projects in China alone, and the admirable absolute comes to 8 actor aboveboard anxiety of Landry-fied territory. And don't anticipate cookie-cutter design: "I don't echo attic plans," he says. "And I never archetype myself. Nobody abroad has a Gisele house, alike if they capital it."
But if there's one affair the artist wants to accomplish clear, it's that he is in no way a admeasurement snob: "I am aloof as amorous about abate projects, and we are still accomplishing abounding of them," he says. "We aloof accomplished a 4,000-square-foot bedfellow cottage in Malibu. It was aloof a little folly, and that is aloof as fun for me."
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