Bel-Air mansion from spec developer Ardie Tavangarian lists for $177M

It’s not far to the lav at the 24-bathroom mansion unveiled by Ardie Tavangarian above Bel-Air Country Club. The cost for the convenience: $177 million.

The Los Angeles-based developer has listed the furnished, 35,000-square-foot speculative estate at 607 Siena Way, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The eight-bedroom, 24-bath manse, dubbed Villa Siena, was completed in November, but Tavangarian chose not to list it because of the city’s troubled luxury market.

But now he has all the finishing touches — including the furniture — in place.

“We’re in a little bit of uncertain times in our history, and I felt that I wanted real perfection and to have everything completely done,” Tavangarian told the WSJ.

Tavangarian, head of West L.A.-based Arya Group, bought the first parcel of the 1.3-acre estate in 2018 for $11 million, then added additional land. The cost of the project was not disclosed.

The home’s design was inspired by nature and features themes of fire and water, Tavangarian said.

The mansion is sheathed in teak and stone. Inside, a four-story, bronze floating staircase hangs from the ceiling over a reflecting pool. Thirty-foot pivot doors are big enough to usher in Goliath.

The megamansion includes a master bedroom with a retractable sunroof, a wine room with 200-year-old Moroccan doors and an outdoor “sauna pod” with a glass wall looking over the country club fairways.

There’s also a spa with hot and cold plunge pools and a hydrotherapy chamber, with lush plantings on the ceiling and LED screens playing videos of tropical birds.

Not to forget the requisite L.A. screening room, bar and “auto gallery” for six cars.

Rayni Williams, of The Beverly Hills Estates, holds the listing with her husband, Branden Williams, and Tavangarian’s daughters, Shana and Emila Tavangarian.

Tavangarian has built luxury homes for four decades for clients such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Peter Morton. In 2021, a Malibu estate the company built was bought by billionaire Marc Andreessen for $177 million.

The Iranian native said he began building spec homes because he’d watched CEOs and billionaires struggle to make the ”6,000 decisions” that go into building a house from scratch.

They can make billion-dollar deals, he told the WSJ, “but when it comes to deciding the fabric of the living room couch, they have a very hard time.”

— Dana Bartholomew