The most beautiful house on earth. The most expensive houses in the world (6 photos). What can a potential buyer expect?
How much could the most expensive mansion in the world cost? $100 million? $200 million? But no: the most expensive is the mansion owned by the richest man in India, Mukeshi Ambani. Price: $1 billion. The rest of the houses included in the ten most expensive in the world cannot be called cheap either.
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1. House of co-owner of Mail.ru Group and DST Global Yuri Milner in Los Altos Hills. The cost, according to various sources, is $75-100 million.
This luxurious 2,400 m² Loire-style home has five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a huge entrance hall, a rotunda flanked by staircases, a home cinema, a wine cellar, a spa, a gym and a ballroom.
2. Maison de l’Amitie, Palm Beach (Florida) - $100 million.
Donald Trump purchased the Maison de l'Amitie for $41.4 million in 2004, saying at the time: "It's the highest amount ever paid for a single-family home, and I think it's a pretty good deal for the buyer." Four years later, he sold Maison de l’Amitie to Dmitry Rybolovlev, chairman of the board of directors of Uralkali, for $100 million, Vedomosti claims. The home has 18 bedrooms, 22 bathrooms and a 48-car garage.
3. Fleur De Lys - $125 million
The Fleur De Lys mansion measures approximately 3,809 m² and has 15 bedrooms. Its anonymous buyer plans to rent out “Lily Flower” for $400,000 a month. The decor of the mansion is made in the style of the times of Louis XIV: French limestone floors, frescoes on the ceiling, walls made of marble, leather and gold. The house even has a library with a collection of rare books and a small theater.
4. House of American television producer Aaron Spelling. Cost: $150 million. In addition to a 100-car garage, there is even a gift-wrapping room.
6. The Vershina house in the Alps belongs to Tim and Edra Blixeth, owners of the elite resort Yellow Stone Club. Cost - $155 million. The mansion is located on a plot of 64 hectares, has 8 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms.
8. The mansion, owned by the daughter of the former President of Ukraine Elena Franchuk, is located in Kensington (UK). Cost: $161 million. The house has 10 bedrooms, an underground swimming pool, a cinema and, for some reason, a bunker.
9. Hearst Palace - $165 million. The owners have 3 swimming pools, 29 bedrooms and a cinema at their disposal. The mansion is famous for the fact that the filming of “The Godfather” took place within its walls.
11. The Fairfield Pond mansion, with an area of approximately 6,131 m², is equipped with a basketball court, a bowling alley and a jacuzzi for $150,000. Cost - $198 million.
13. The palace was built in 1902 by King Leopold II of Belgium for his wife Caroline Lacroix on the French Riviera. It is currently worth $736 million. The previous owner of the villa, billionaire banker Edmond Safra, hosted Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra here. In 2008, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov intended to buy the villa, but due to the crisis he abandoned the deal.
Famous designers Stuart Hughes and Kevin Huber presented the most expensive house in the world. The cost of a small chalet in Switzerland amounted to a cosmic sum - $12.2 billion. Luxlux.net tells the details about the new cost record in the world of luxury real estate.
Meteorite mansion: the most expensive house in the world - $12.2 billion
The astronomical price of the house is justified only by the fact that almost 200 tons of precious metals were used to create it. And the interiors of the Swiss chalet are made using meteorites and dinosaur bones.
Meteorite mansion: the most expensive house in the world - $12.2 billion
A more than luxurious house was created in a high-tech style and is located on a large plot of land with an area of 2.5 hectares near the beautiful Lake Zug in the canton of Lucerne in the picturesque foothills of the Alps.
By billionaire standards, the house is relatively small. The total area of the building reaches 725 square meters. m. For the future owners of this splendor, a large view terrace with a swimming pool with an area of 388 sq. m. has been created. meters, under which there is an underground garage for four cars and a wine cellar of 245 m.
Space decor
The bar in the living room is decorated with natural meteorite
The most expensive house in the world, Switzerland
The Swiss chalet has only 8 rooms, but their decoration deserves special attention. For example, the bar in the living room is decorated with natural meteorite. This space material is incredibly expensive, as are the plates used in the bar from the bones of the raptor dinosaur, which lived on earth 65 million years ago.
The floors throughout the house are made using shavings from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which is several tens of millions of years old. In total, the designers spent 200 tons of precious metals to create the decor of the luxurious house: gold, platinum, silver - the decoration of this cosmic house is amazing.
It is unknown who owns this super expensive property. They say that the house was built by order of a Swiss citizen. The famous designer Stuart Hughes worked on the development of the project, and the construction work was led by Kevin Huber, president of exklusivHAUS.
It took five and a half years to create the most expensive house in the world, but its exact location is not indicated. After all, protecting such a chalet from hunters to admire the luxurious home will be very difficult.
It seems that the Swiss have managed to demonstrate to the world a new record in the field of expensive real estate, worthy of the pages of the Guinness Book of Records.
There are a huge number of buildings, houses, villas, hotel complexes and skyscrapers that are unusual in their external and internal appearance in the world. ELLE has compiled a gallery of houses that are not included in the list of the most luxurious residences in the world, but are definitely considered unique objects of design thought.
Villa Coastlands House by the ocean in California
The villa, surrounded by endless sea expanses, was created for an elderly couple. Despite the fact that the house resembles the abode of fairy-tale gnomes, it turns out to be very spacious. Located in the shade of perennial oak trees on a slope near the Pacific Ocean, as conceived by the architects, residence was “embedded” into the hill and, as a result, organically merged with the natural landscape.
Gallery house in Brazil
A private residence in Brazil, despite the informal design, is a classic embodiment of a modern home. From the outside, the gallery house looks more like a country hotel complex, but this is just an appearance. The interior of the building creates an atmosphere of comfort and home, and the house itself can accommodate a large number of guests. Panoramic views of the mountains and green hills add provincial exoticism to the futuristic villa.
Private house Daniel's Lane in New York
Two-story New York The Daniel’s Lane mansion is a building of an unusual shape in the form of combined rectangular structures and an attic with a huge number of seating areas. Large windows around the perimeter are the hallmark of the residence.
Private residence in California
An old residence built in the historic district of Brentwood, California, experienced a new birth after the owners decided to change the exterior and expand the house. The original attic on the upper level, transparent walls and all the signs of so-called functional minimalism allow us to consider the residence a standard of its genre.
