Robert and Krystal Rivani (Black Lion Financial commitment Team, Getty)
The castles in the 7 kingdoms of Westeros just can’t contend with the lavish palace that retail serious estate investor Robert Rivani and his wife Krystal have curated in Beverly Hills.
“Being ‘extra’ is every little thing to us,” Krystal Rivani advised the Wall Avenue Journal for a profile on Castle Rivani, a 1.7-acre, chateau-design and style compound the few purchased for $13.7 million in 2019.
She stated they expended about a further $4 million to make the residence replicate their style for fantastical interiors and landscaping, such as positioning a $50,000 reproduction of the spiked iron throne from the HBO television collection, “Game of Thrones,” in their residing room.
Robert Rivani in entrance of a reproduction of the iron throne from the HBO’s “Game of Thrones” (Facebook)
Her partner, Robert Rivani, is president of Black Lion Financial commitment Team, a Los Angeles-centered company that is been on a obtaining spree for large-profile retail condominiums in Miami and Miami Seashore because past yr. Very last thirty day period, Black Lion paid out $6.4 million for the ground-ground cafe room at A person Thousand Museum, the iconic luxurious condo tower at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard designed by the late Zaha Hadid.
Built by entrepreneur David Gebbia and his ex-wife, Carlton Gebbia, who beforehand starred in “The Serious Housewives of Beverly Hills,” the 15,000-sq.-foot Beverly Hills mansion now experienced a Gothic aptitude merged with Italian Romanticism when the Rivanis ordered the residence.
Robert Rivani (Fb)
Trapped indoors in the course of the pandemic, the Rivanis went to perform reworking their abode into a whimsical grownup playground, dropping severe loot alongside the way, in accordance to the WSJ. The iron throne, for example, was crafted in Siberia, and the couple paid $15,000 to ship the 500-pound ornament to the U.S.
They paid $150,000 for a 25-foot-long chandelier with 300 glass items resembling butterflies that was built in Dubai, and hung it in their sitting place that the Rivanis connect with the Jungle Space. In the learn bed room, the Rivanis mounted a 250-yr-old Austrian church altar as their headboard. They paid $45,000 for it.
In one particular of the loos, the Rivanis produced sure attendees can’t have a instant of privacy, as a dragon-shaped gargoyle sculpture seems to be down at the bathroom. For the outside backyard garden, Krystal Rivani produced an “Alice in Wonderland” topic that concerned redoing the grounds in a harlequin sample, showcasing bouquets interspersed with pavers.
Robert and Krystal Rivani pose in entrance of Castle Rivani (Fb)
The Rivanis are relocating to South Florida, and lately bought a four-bed room penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach front, for $7.5 million.
