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Developer Bruce Makowsky, founder of BAM Luxury Development built 924 Bel Air Road the US most expensive home listed at $250 million. He worked with Leyard and Planar, a Leyard Company to create some of the most incredible home entertainment installations that could be conceived in a residential home. Each detail of the four-story, 38,000-square-foot mansion was carefully chosen to make jaws drop by offering the most opulent amenities imaginable.
The most dramatic of these installations is a 4x4 Clarity Matrix High Bright LCD Video Wall that is configured to a $2-million hydraulic lift, which, at the press of a button, rises into view from behind the 85-foot infinity pool. In the mansion’s interior, installed above a 22-seat bar on the lower entertainment floor is a 28-feet-long, 7-feet-high Planar DirectLight LED Video Wall System. Makowsky also selected Planar UltraRes Series 98-inch 4K LCD displays for inclusion in the mansion’s interior, installing a total of 56 Planar UltraRes Series 4K LCD displays throughout various rooms and locations.
The sprawling, 12-bedroom, 21-bath Bel Air mansion includes three gourmet kitchens, five bars, seven full-time staffers, two commercial elevators (one lined with alligator skin), a wellness spa and a fitness center. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
“I went around the world to source the materials for this home, whether it be the finest stones found anywhere or the most luxurious furniture,” Makowsky said. “Every single inch of the house—inside and out—was meticulously curated. Everything had to be the very best.”
In designing his mansion, Makowsky placed special emphasis on home entertainment. Much in the same style as the home’s other impressive features, his intent was to incorporate the most cutting-edge and stunning audio and video technology to “absolutely blow people away,” he said. This led to a collaboration with Leyard and Planar, a Leyard company. “We worked with Leyard and Planar to create some of the most incredible installations that could be conceived in a residential home,” Makowsky said.
The most dramatic of these installations is a 4x4 Clarity Matrix® High Bright LCD Video Wall that is configured to a $2-million hydraulic lift, which, at the press of a button, rises into view from behind the 85-foot infinity pool. “We dug down 25-feet into the ground to engineer the spiral lift system,” Makowsky said. “The resolution of the screen is perfect during the day, and at night it transforms the deck environment into an amazing outdoor theater.”
See the LCD Wall pop up behind the infinity pool on its $2 million motorized lift in this promotional video at 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/613080258
Designed for challenging, bright ambient light conditions, the Clarity Matrix High Bright video wall delivers outstanding brightness performance—representing an optimized solution for the sunny, Southern California outdoor environment of the Bel Air mansion.
Makowsky also selected Planar UltraRes Series 98-inch 4K LCD displays for inclusion in the mansion’s interior, installing a total of 56 Planar UltraRes Series displays throughout various rooms and locations. Offering Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160), exceptional 4K clarity and a sleek and elegant ultra-slim profile, Planar UltraRes Series is an ideal choice for the home’s luxury interior style.
“There’s a lot of important parts to this house but home technology is clearly one of the most important,” Makowsky said. “We choose Planar because the color, quality and reliability are unparalleled. It was vital to have the best of everything in this home and with Planar displays, the clarity is just perfection. Leyard and Planar have been an incredible partner and we will use them with all our houses moving forward.”
More of the incredible amenities of the home include a four-lane bowling alley, a James Bond-themed movie theatre, two cellars stocked with a multi-million-dollar wine collection, a handcrafted $2-million-dollar steel staircase and an extensive art collection of over 100 carefully selected pieces including an oversized Leica camera sculpture created by Chinese artist Liao Yibai, with an estimated value of $1 million.
On the home’s lower level is an extensive entertainment space and an auto gallery featuring 12 rare cars. The auto collection (which comes with the home) is valued at over $30 million and features a Bugatti Veyron, a Ferrari 488, a Rolls-Royce Dawn, a Pagani Huayra and a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K.
The exterior features 17,000 square-feet of entertainment decks and an 85-foot Italian glass infinity pool with a swim-up bar. The decks offer 270-degree views of L.A. and perched on a rooftop helipad is a deactivated helicopter from the 1980’s television series Airwolf, renovated into an art piece.
Makowsky is familiar with the billionaire property market, having previously sold a Beverly Hills mansion in 2016 to Swedish video game billionaire Markus Persson for $70 million, the highest price ever paid for a Beverly Hills home. Makowsky justifies the extraordinary $250 million asking price for his Bel Air mansion by pointing to the luxury superyacht market, where the mega rich will drop upwards of $500 million for a boat. So why not spend that much for a home?
The most dramatic of these installations is a 4x4 Clarity Matrix High Bright LCD Video Wall that is configured to a $2-million hydraulic lift, which, at the press of a button, rises into view from behind the 85-foot infinity pool. In the mansion’s interior, installed above a 22-seat bar on the lower entertainment floor is a 28-feet-long, 7-feet-high Planar DirectLight LED Video Wall System. Makowsky also selected Planar UltraRes Series 98-inch 4K LCD displays for inclusion in the mansion’s interior, installing a total of 56 Planar UltraRes Series 4K LCD displays throughout various rooms and locations.
The sprawling, 12-bedroom, 21-bath Bel Air mansion includes three gourmet kitchens, five bars, seven full-time staffers, two commercial elevators (one lined with alligator skin), a wellness spa and a fitness center. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
“I went around the world to source the materials for this home, whether it be the finest stones found anywhere or the most luxurious furniture,” Makowsky said. “Every single inch of the house—inside and out—was meticulously curated. Everything had to be the very best.”
In designing his mansion, Makowsky placed special emphasis on home entertainment. Much in the same style as the home’s other impressive features, his intent was to incorporate the most cutting-edge and stunning audio and video technology to “absolutely blow people away,” he said. This led to a collaboration with Leyard and Planar, a Leyard company. “We worked with Leyard and Planar to create some of the most incredible installations that could be conceived in a residential home,” Makowsky said.
The most dramatic of these installations is a 4x4 Clarity Matrix® High Bright LCD Video Wall that is configured to a $2-million hydraulic lift, which, at the press of a button, rises into view from behind the 85-foot infinity pool. “We dug down 25-feet into the ground to engineer the spiral lift system,” Makowsky said. “The resolution of the screen is perfect during the day, and at night it transforms the deck environment into an amazing outdoor theater.”
See the LCD Wall pop up behind the infinity pool on its $2 million motorized lift in this promotional video at 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/613080258
Designed for challenging, bright ambient light conditions, the Clarity Matrix High Bright video wall delivers outstanding brightness performance—representing an optimized solution for the sunny, Southern California outdoor environment of the Bel Air mansion.
Makowsky also selected Planar UltraRes Series 98-inch 4K LCD displays for inclusion in the mansion’s interior, installing a total of 56 Planar UltraRes Series displays throughout various rooms and locations. Offering Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160), exceptional 4K clarity and a sleek and elegant ultra-slim profile, Planar UltraRes Series is an ideal choice for the home’s luxury interior style.
“There’s a lot of important parts to this house but home technology is clearly one of the most important,” Makowsky said. “We choose Planar because the color, quality and reliability are unparalleled. It was vital to have the best of everything in this home and with Planar displays, the clarity is just perfection. Leyard and Planar have been an incredible partner and we will use them with all our houses moving forward.”
More of the incredible amenities of the home include a four-lane bowling alley, a James Bond-themed movie theatre, two cellars stocked with a multi-million-dollar wine collection, a handcrafted $2-million-dollar steel staircase and an extensive art collection of over 100 carefully selected pieces including an oversized Leica camera sculpture created by Chinese artist Liao Yibai, with an estimated value of $1 million.
On the home’s lower level is an extensive entertainment space and an auto gallery featuring 12 rare cars. The auto collection (which comes with the home) is valued at over $30 million and features a Bugatti Veyron, a Ferrari 488, a Rolls-Royce Dawn, a Pagani Huayra and a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K.
The exterior features 17,000 square-feet of entertainment decks and an 85-foot Italian glass infinity pool with a swim-up bar. The decks offer 270-degree views of L.A. and perched on a rooftop helipad is a deactivated helicopter from the 1980’s television series Airwolf, renovated into an art piece.
Makowsky is familiar with the billionaire property market, having previously sold a Beverly Hills mansion in 2016 to Swedish video game billionaire Markus Persson for $70 million, the highest price ever paid for a Beverly Hills home. Makowsky justifies the extraordinary $250 million asking price for his Bel Air mansion by pointing to the luxury superyacht market, where the mega rich will drop upwards of $500 million for a boat. So why not spend that much for a home?