The Third One’s a Real Charmer

This French Revival-style home is the third residence designed by the same architect for the same couple.

Now, the couple are planning their next home, which he also will design. Santa Monica-based architect Richard Landry of Landry Design Group Inc. created this home primarily for entertaining.

The house was completed in 2000 and is in Beverly Park, a guard-gated Beverly Hills-area community. It has a large dining room, a covered loggia and an outdoor fireplace and two guest houses.

About this house: The owners, a forensic accountant and his wife, enjoy designing and building homes so much they already have selected another parcel of land for their fourth home.

Their first home was formal Mediterranean in style; their second was rural Italian; next will be French classical.

Asking price: $14.5 million.

Size: Eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms in 17,000 square feet, on two flat acres.

Features: The home has a wine cellar and tasting room; a rock pool and spa with a waterfall; rolling lawns and gardens; a tennis court with a viewing pavilion; a covered outdoor living room with heated limestone floors and a fireplace; a covered outdoor kitchen; and two rooms suitable as offices or playrooms. There are marble, onyx and walnut floors.

Where: Beverly Park in the Beverly Hills area.

Contact: Kurt Rappaport, Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, (310) 860-8889; Barbara Tenenbaum, (310) 281-3920, and Michael Eisenberg, (310) 748-5410, both at Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills.

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Send information to Ruth Ryon, Real Estate Section, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.