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For a relatively remote place, 8322 Cabrillo Highway in Montara (San Mateo County) gets an awful lot of attention.
Up until it listed last week, the circa-1946 property, dubbed Villa Montara, served as a venue for weddings and private events; in fact, realtor Justin Fichelson says that Sean “P Diddy” Combs shot a video here once, and that Apple rented it out for an entire year to house engineers.
Fichelson also claims that the two-bed, one-and-a-half-bath house’s remarkable look comes by way of none other than late San Francisco designer Michael Taylor.
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The place looks every inch Taylor, embodying his longtime love affair with stone textures and surfaces as well as what he called “the element of contrast”—the key to a great room, in Taylor’s eyes—throughout, playing weathered looking wood off of stucco and interrupting the pleasingly striated nesting of straight interior walls with the abrupt inclusion of a circular glass window.
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From the outside, the home’s long wings give way to ranks of gallery windows, like a tremendous aquarium of glass and concrete, all staring out onto a long descent to the beach and the glistening Pacific Ocean below.
Asking is a whopping $6.5 million.
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- 8322 Cabrillo Highway [Sotheby’s]
- Villa Montara [YouTube]
- Taylor Designs Thrive [SF Chronicle]
- Ron Mann Designs
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