The Portrait
Number 8500 is the corner where Sunset Boulevard becomes the Strip, at the foot of the hills, and it is the loudest address in this Collection by some distance. That is the trade: you are minutes from Beverly Hills one way and the Hollywood theatres the other, and you are on Sunset.
An eight-storey tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, furnished with pieces from Living Divani, Lema and Porro. Studios start over 700 square feet — more than 65 square metres, which is larger than most one-bedrooms in Europe — and a two-bedroom is 1,213 square feet, 113 square metres, with a premium category above 1,260. There is a pool deck with the city below it, a screening room, a gym open around the clock, indoor parking, a doorman, and a retail plaza on the ground floor.
Housekeeping here is periodic rather than daily, as at every residence of this kind, and no rate is published. Ask for a high floor away from the boulevard; on this corner the floor number is the difference between the two stays.
Who it suits: a working stay of weeks in Los Angeles built around West Hollywood and the studios, for someone who wants a pool deck and does not mind Sunset.
Written by the Selloua editors from the address’s own published facts. Nothing in this entry was paid for.