
Nina Takesh made a cash offer. That’s how confident the designer was in a Beverly Hills home yet to hit the market, built in the 1950s for Leslie H. Martinson, the film director behind the original Batman. "The energy is what drives me to these homes," says Nina, a self-described serial house flipper. "And the energy was there."
Although time-worn, the mid-century modern home had maintained its layout (it never left the Martinson family’s hands) with memories of vintage Hollywood soirées still hanging in the air.