Taschen founder lists restored Beverly Hills home for US$25 million

Benedikt Taschen has listed his Beverly Hills home for US$25 million.

The publisher and collector put the Los Angeles house up for sale this week. ARTnews reported the US$25 million asking price on 24 September 2026. That figure is an asking price, not a completed sale.

Taschen is the founder of Taschen Books. The New York Times names him as the seller of the house. The same report describes him as a publisher who also collects.

The house is the Adelman Residence. It stands in Beverly Hills, a city inside the wider Los Angeles area. The Times identifies the property by that name and says Taschen restored it.

Restoration here means repair and rebuilding, not simply redecoration. It is slow work. It involves builders, conservators, permits and bills.

The style is mid-century modern, the postwar idiom of flat roofs, open plans and large sheets of glass. The language suits this house. It was built in 1960, a strong period for that way of building in California.

Taschen has owned it for almost 30 years. He bought the 1960 house in 1997, according to an archive account in The Washington Post. That 2005 report described the house as it was being reborn. Two decades on, it is back on the market.

Asking prices tell only the first part of the story. A sale price, once agreed and closed, tells the rest. Fees, taxes and broker commissions sit outside the headline number.

What makes this stand out is the fit between owner and object. Taschen spends his working life publishing books about art, design and buildings. Here he took on a building as a project in itself. He held it, worked on it and kept it.

For anyone following along, this means watch the paperwork. The next steps are offers, escrow and a recorded deed. Until those land, the US$25 million is what the seller seeks.