Shortly after high-kicking “Million Dollar Listing New York” star Fredrik Eklund packed up and moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2020, the power broker and his husband, artist Derek Kaplan, plunked down a sliver more than $7 million for a not-quite-brand-new East Coast-style traditional tucked behind gates on a quiet lane in the Coldwater Canyon area of Beverly Hills.
At the time they bought the 5,700-square-foot abode, it was awash in a monochromatic palette of white, gray, and black. Wanting more stimulating eye candy than stark white walls provide, the couple engaged the color-savvy services of New York-based interior designer Paris Forino, who transformed the luxuriously appointed but banally dressed house into a fantasia of bespoke details and saturated pastel colors.
The 17 shades of pink used throughout the home, including six different pink marbles in the primary bathroom, are offset with soft baby blues, rich mustard yellows, and other warm sunset hues. They also added bold fireplace surrounds, jazzed up the kitchen with leathered stone and gleaming copper counters, and turned what was already a perfectly nice backyard into an inviting and intimate oasis that accommodates both quiet repose and poolside entertaining.
Eklund has described the polychromatic residence, which he showed off for Architectural Digest, as his and Kaplan’s “forever home.” However, though they have no plans to sell the highly stylized residence, the pair have, at least for the moment, put down some roots in Miami to be closer to Eklund’s Shell Bay and Shore Club projects. Indeed, they’ve recently bought a house in Magic City and enrolled their five-year-old twins in school for the Fall.
Rather than have it sit vacant while they settle into south Florida, they have made their west coast forever home available as a temporary residence to someone else at a rate of $50,000 per month. Available unfurnished through Marcy Roth of The Eklund | Gomes Team at Douglas Elliman, the two-story home contains four (and potentially several more) bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus a couple of powder rooms.
Alongside the double-height entrance gallery, there are adjoining formal living and dining areas, while the spacious great room (family lounge, kitchen, and breakfast area) casually spills out to the backyard. There are four bedrooms on the upper floor, including the deluxe primary suite, as well as a fifth bedroom converted to a media lounge with a professional-grade projector and THX screen. Three more potential bedrooms on the main floor are used as a home office, a children’s playroom, and a gym.
Out back, along with the tiled spillover spa and swimming pool, the bi-level backyard is outfitted with a built-in grill and bar area, a dining patio festooned with wicker lights hung from mature olive trees, and a huge fire pit set against a wall of trees and foliage that provide total privacy from Barry Diller and Diane von Fürstenberg’s neighboring estate.
In addition to their “forever home” in Beverly Hills and their new digs in Miami, Kaplan and Eklund maintain a luxury condo in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and an elegant 8.5-acre country estate in Connecticut.
