Kathryn Bigelow is on the move. The Academy Award–winning director recently put her stunningly gorgeous concrete-and-glass villa, nestled between Beverly Hills and Studio City, California, on the market for a whopping $12.9 million, which could net quite the profit given that she and then husband James Cameron bought the home at the substantially lesser price of $1.8 million back in 1989.
The home is comprised of a 4,236-square-foot main house and a poolside guest house, both of which offer up massive floor-to-ceiling glass windows with jaw-dropping views of the landscape around them. Between the two main structures, there are four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. The secluded main house sits at the end of a nondescript, rustic lane and opens onto an interior made up of clean, straight lines: 16-foot exposed-beam ceilings, paneled hardwood floors, and floor-to-ceiling windows featuring wooden frames that create an angular yet warm atmosphere. The exemplary cavernous living room is anchored by a fireplace carved directly into a large slab of floor-to-ceiling concrete on one end of the room, and the nearby dining space (adjacent, incidentally, to a sleek, utilitarian kitchen) boasts its own second fireplace as well as twinkling bulbs hanging from the ceiling to light up the space. Several wood-framed glass doors lead from the kitchen out onto the gravel-laden grounds that surround the home.
The house also features a library/office lined entirely along one wall with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and an entire wall made up of glass windows overlooking the trees beyond. The media lounge is located down a flight of modern wood-and-metal stairs and features a state-of-the-art projection system, a wet bar, and a double-height wall of glass opposite the screen. The highlight of the home, however, is the master suite, which takes up an entire lower-level wing of is own, and includes a double-height glass-walled bedroom with its own concrete fireplace and a separate space for lounging, a spacious walk-in closet, a lofted sitting room, and a bathroom that features its own cedar sauna and a beautifully inventive double-sink vanity. Out back, the home is no less impressive thanks to a stone staircase that winds down and away from a graveled patio right outside the living, dining, and kitchen areas and toward a uniquely shaped swimming pool with a built-in spa. The separate pool house is also located at the lower outdoor level. A separate guest suite sits just above the garage.
At present, Bigelow splits her time between L.A. and NYC, where she previously owned a 1,700-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in Tribeca. She currently owns a 72-acre horse property in upstate New York, which she bought for $2.6 million back in 2016.
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