Johnny Depp and his lofts in Los Angeles
In yesterday's poll, Johnny Depp won by a serious margin. I honestly expected Drake to be the leader and originally did an entire feature on his incredible Toronto mansion, but you decided differently. So I got up early this morning and made you a juicy dose of morning aesthetics for breakfast. Let's go visit Hollywood's premier pirate.
In 2007, Johnny Depp purchased five terraced penthouses in downtown Los Angeles at once. The total value of the deal was $7.2 million. He did not demolish the walls, but kept each loft separately. He only added doorways between three of them so he could conveniently move from one penthouse to another.
In total, he ended up with a thousand square meters of living space. 9 bedrooms, 5 living rooms and 14 bathrooms. He converted one loft into a music studio. The second was a guest suite. In the rest Depp lived himself, as in a hotel, changing interiors and views to suit his mood.
The Eastern Columbia building itself is an Art Deco icon. It was built in 1930. At the height of the jazz and neon era/ The clients were two trading companies, Eastern Outfitting and Columbia Outfitting, hence the double name. Their main offices were located here. The building is 80 meters high. The main building has 13 floors. For Los Angeles at the time, it was a giant and a symbol of modernity.
The facade of the building is clad in turquoise-colored terracotta tiles with gold inlays. This shade was rarely used in high-rise architecture of those years, so the tower still looks futuristic. Many tourists think that the house was built recently, although it is almost a hundred years old.
There are giant clocks on the roof. You can see it from four sides of the world. Next to it is a neon sign. At night, the building glows like a beacon in the center of the city. Before the advent of navigators, it was used as a landmark.
The architect on the project was Cloud Bielman, one of California's premier Art Deco masters. He designed buildings so that even the office tower looked like a jewelry box. The first floors of the building originally housed a huge department store. People came here not only to shop, but also just to see the escalators, storefronts, and the glitz of the new century.
In the 1980s, downtown Los Angeles was in decline. The offices of retail giants closed. The building was deteriorating. Only a massive restoration saved it. In 2006, resourceful developers converted the tower into luxury lofts.
Now there are 140 residences, a rooftop pool, fitness room and panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles. This building used to symbolize the future. A century later, it looks like the future again, only retro-futuristic.
Inside Johnny Depp's lofts are traditional exposed brick, exposed beams, and original steel window frames. In one living room, guests were greeted by a colorful full-wall mural by Brazilian artist Osgemeos.
Depp personally sourced and installed lampposts from 1958 Hollywood Boulevard right in the kitchen. Somewhere he put a cognac-colored leather chair, somewhere he hung heavy dark curtains.
After his divorce from Amber Heard in 2016, he put all the lofts up for sale for $12.8 million. Along with the penthouses, Depp bought an entire French village near St. Tropez. Not a house in France, but a whole village with dozens of houses.
Depp invested $10 million in restoration and turned the place into a mini-town. When he got tired of it, he put it up for sale. Depp also bought a couple islands in the Bahamas. A castle in Europe. A ranch in Kentucky.
Johnny is not so much an investor as a collector of places and experiences. A man with good taste and a lack of financial discipline. Which hasn't stopped his properties from steadily increasing in value.
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