For more than 20 years actress, comedian, and TV host Ellen DeGeneres has been entertaining audiences all over the world, starting with her TV show Ellen in 1994 and, since 2003, as host of her eponymous TV talk show. She is also a serial, knowledgeable and passionate house restorer. Along with her Australian wife, actress Portia de Rossi, she has renovated at least a dozen houses in recent years, and is on first-name terms with most of the Los Angeles high-end realtors.
All of the couple’s houses have been both dramatic and architecturally significant, and none more so than this mid-century modern masterpiece, designed in the late 1940s by the iconic Los Angeles architect A. Quincy Jones, with interiors by the legendary Hollywood decorator William “Billy” Haines. Commissioned by society…
