To unveil one of the grandest penthouses ever to be built in Los Angeles, its developers threw a little dinner party.
Two dozen of L.A.’s top real estate agents — the sunglasses-indoors kind who regularly appear on reality television — were tended to by a cadre of young women in identical cream outfits, hired for the evening to serve as “personal concierges.” Eight hundred gardenias were flown in from a San Francisco Bay Area flower farm, separated into individual vases and spaced exactly four inches apart on a long tablecloth-draped table. There was welcome Champagne and caviar blinis; a live singer in a glittery siren-red gown; and filet mignon with “caramelized heirloom truffle.”
Up for grabs: the city’s latest showstopping eight-figure penthouse, a decade in the making and finally for sale for $50 million off-market at a time when luxury condos in L.A. are more coveted than ever. If it sells at that price, it’ll break the county’s all-time condo sales record of $35 million, for a Century City penthouse that Candy Spelling bought in 2010 when she was looking to downsize. (Although, with another, even more expensive condo set to be listed this week, any new record might not stand for long.)
