Montecito

An exquisite neo-classic villa built in 1925 as a music conservatory on one of Montecito’s great estates, which over the years has been skillfully transformed into the sophisticated, luxurious home it is today.

One perfectly proportioned room leads into another. The grand salon, entered through a pair of spectacular, glass and wrought iron doors is 27 feet square with a soaring, coffered ceiling, antique marble fireplace and Greek pillars in bas-relief. The glamorous dining room and gourmet kitchen beyond have French doors to the magnificent gardens, for seamless indoor-outdoor entertaining.

The master bedroom suite with newly remodeled bathroom includes a study with a marble fireplace and an antique beaded chandelier. There is a marvelous library/family room that connects the guest wing to the main house. The guest quarters, complete with kitchen, has a separate entrance through an allee of olive-trees.

Every room is filled with light, and every room has a glorious garden view. This home is perfect, because owners with great flair and taste have made it so.

This jewel of a house is set on a most romantic landscape. The formal Italian garden with cypress trees and box hedges was originally designed as an outdoor theater where once the Barrymores and Orson Welles performed. It is surrounded by park-like grounds with lawns that seem to go on forever and ancient pine trees that were brought to the property from all over the world.