But construction was halted when she arrived on the scene. After six months of discussions about whether the entire project should be scrapped, Melinda Gates decided to influence further construction by incorporating her preferences — and insisted on making the place a home for a family and not a lone tech wizard. To that end, she hired interior designer Thierry Despont, who has been the creative mind behind the restoration of famous interiors like the Palm Court at the Plaza Hotel in New York and the Ritz in Paris.
As they moved through the rooms, lights would dim or brighten, music would play and the temperature would automatically adjust to their preference. As the house was being built, Gates began to purchase the electronic rights to world-famous pieces from museums like the National Gallery in London through a company called Interactive Home Systems.
These acquisitions were part of an entrepreneurial experiment: Gates imagined that in the future, other people would be able to decorate their homes with digitized artworks just like he was attempting to do.
Interactive Home Systems became Corbis, a rich photography archive, which later sold its image and licensing division to a Chinese company. The 2,square-foot library has a dome roof and two secret bookcases, including one that reveals a hidden bar.
On the ceiling you'll find a quote from "The Great Gatsby" that reads: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
He reportedly became fond of a year-old maple tree that grew close to the home's driveway. It's monitored by computer, and if at any point it becomes too dry, water is automatically pumped into it. There are several different garages at different points around the property. The most interesting one, however, is an underground cave made out of concrete and stainless steel. That garage alone can park 10 cars. Some of the concrete was purposely broken to give it a rough, "deconstructivist" look.
The lakefront shore contains sand that's delivered in large quantities by a barge from St. Lucia each year. The 2,square-foot hall could seat up to people for a dinner party, or people standing up at a cocktail event. A 6-foot-wide limestone fireplace dominates one wall, while another wall has a foot-wide video screen. Nifty 18, Market Watch. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Bill Gates' Medina home is so big and so famous that it has its own Wikipedia page.
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Cities Atlanta Austin Boston. Chicago Detroit Los Angeles. New York San Francisco Archive. Filed under: Medina Seattle celebrity homes Seattle luxury homes. The house contains 24 bathrooms. Including ten baths. That is a lot of bathrooms.
The home only has seven bedrooms—meaning there are more than three bathrooms per bedroom in the residence. The swimming pool is a whopping 60 feet by 17 feet and includes a fossil-motif floor and an underwater music system.
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