Ellen DeGeneres Buys Brody House by way of. Quincy Jones

It’s been called from a mid century masterpiece towards best house in Chicago. For Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi the A. Quincy Jones-designed gem, often known as “The Brody House”, is called home.

After pulling off a number of the biggest real estate deals of 2013, the celebrity couple have scored an earlier coup in 2014 when purchasing the pristine pad. Confirmed because of the Los Angeles Times, DeGeneres and de Rossi have reportedly paid $39.888 million to the midcentury modern abode found right on the doorstep on the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills.

Comparable to “The Andrew Fuller House” in Dallas, the trophy home sports a shapely design with smooth-walled interiors, spotless finishes, a close watch-opening atrium and beautifully manicured grounds. Walls of glass and vaulted ceilings add an expansive feel towards 13,511-square-foot floor plan, that has six bedrooms, nine baths, a chef’s kitchen as well as a loungeserviced apartment for rent in HaNoi using a library.

ellen-degeneres-a-quincy-jones-brody-house-9Jones, whose works have become quite coveted in celebrity circles, designed the home in 1949 jointly with interior decorator Billy Haines and landscapist Garrett Eckbo. Your house first replaced really for $14.888 million and was restored by designer Stephen Stone before being flipped to the trophy home-collecting DeGeneres.

That DeGeneres and de Rossi have reached it again comes as little surprise. The famous real-estate addicts/amateur designers produced some of the biggest celebrity property headlines in 2013 having a quantity of deals. Besides investing in a dreamy estate in Montecito in May for $26.5 million, the duo pocketed $10.85 million on the serviced apartment for rent in HaNoi Hidden Valley, CA, a dreamy ranch that DeGeneres herself reimagined.