Nothing to see here! Stunning $18M ‘invisible’ mansion owned by married producers behind American Psycho is on Airbnb for $2,000 a night in Joshua Tree
- The 22-story horizontal skyscraper is the most expensive home to ever hit the market in Joshua Tree, a town in the California desert east of Los Angeles
- Its Hollywood owners Chris and Roberta Hanley lived in the luxury 5,500-square-foot property before listing it on Airbnb in November 2022
- The mirror-clad mansion, which has four double bedrooms and a 100-foot pool, reflects its sandy surroundings – effectively disappearing into the desert
An $18million ‘invisible’ Joshua Tree mansion owned by the Hollywood couple behind American Psycho is available to rent on Airbnb for $2,000 -per-night.
The mirror-clad home, which sports a dramatic 100-foot private pool, four huge double bedrooms, and five bathrooms, seems to disappear into the California desert by reflecting its stunning mountain surroundings.
The 22-story sideways skyscraper, which was also listed for sale for $18million earlier this year, is the most expensive home to ever hit the market in Joshua Tree – a High Desert town located east of LA in San Bernardino County.
The previous highest price achieved for a home in the locality was just less than one-fifth of this figure at $3.5million, according to co-listing agent Matt Adamo.
Its Hollywood owners Chris and Roberta Hanley, who have been partners in life and work since meeting in college, spent years designing and building the 5,500-square-foot home, and they lived in it during lockdown in 2020.
The $18 million house in the desert took six years and millions of dollars to build
The house is adorned with few objects of a personal nature. The owners said they did this on purpose so as not to interrupt the minimalist flow of the structure
An outdoor view of the cantilevered portion of the house, which is supported by metal beams built into the desert rock
Over the years it has also hosted the likes of Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Diplo, Lizzo and The Weeknd, along with a lengthy roster of social media influencers and film crews who have used it for production shoots.
In November 2022, the Hanleys re-listed the unique glass behemoth with Field Trip Hospitality as an Airbnb host property, and it quickly became one of the website’s most wish-listed properties of 2023.
The online marketplace’s chief executive, Brian Chesky, describes the invisible mansion as ‘a piece of modern art’ and ‘one of the most spectacular homes in the world on all of Airbnb’.
Visitors can stay in all four bedrooms, which come complete with king size beds and ensuite bathrooms – some with waterfall showers and swim tubs – and go for a dip in the dramatic 100-foot custom indoor swimming pool.
Three of the bedrooms are contained within the main structure, while a fourth lies in a cantilevered portion of the house, which is supported by metal beams built into the desert rock.
The gourmet kitchen sports dual sinks, two Mielle ovens, a sub Zero refrigerator and an oversized island, along with a 13-foot dining table with wall-to-wall views of the striking rocky surroundings.
The house was built and is owned by Hollywood couple Roberta and Chris Hanley, who own the company that produced The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho and Spring Breakers
The spectacular unit measures about 225 feet long and 25 feet wide. It is largely environmentally sustainable and cantilevered to make it look as though one side is floating
It features, among other things, a 100-foot-long pool in the middle of the house. The glass walls on three side of the house can open into the outdoor, making the pool a hybrid indoor-outdoor space
The look of the home changes with the weather and time of day. It is entirely reflective against the bright desert sun, mirroring its stunning natural surroundings, while at night it takes on an entirely different appearance
The master bedroom features a bed that sits atop a 2,500-pound glass base that took five workers two days of work to assemble and install
While the exterior reflects its beautiful surroundings day and night, the interior can be adjusted with remote-controlled blackout shades in the bedrooms, and multicolored LED lighting throughout the home including in the swimming pool.
Adamo told CNBC that the record-breaking sideways-skyscraper generated more than $1.4 million in 2021, adding that around 15% of this sum came from production.
The structure is also eco-friendly, with a carbon footprint close to zero owing to it being powered by 92 solar panels which line the roof and store energy in three Tesla batteries.
It sits on 90 acres of private desert landscape including its own 4,000-foot mountain peak, multiple hiking trails through gigantic boulders and direct-walk on access to the Desert View Conservation Area of the Joshua Tree National Park.
One Airbnb guest described the luxury home as ‘an architectural marvel’ which gives the illusion of staying ‘on another planet’, while another said the reflections it casts at nighttime are ‘mesmerizing’.
The home has been rented by some A-list names in Hollywood seeking a quiet time away from the city. Demi Lovato and Diplo include two of the guests of intrigue who have stayed at the house, which was formerly listed for rent at a price of $150,000 a month
The house, which features glass that is mostly removable into the outdoors, has been featured on Netflix’s ‘The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals’
A magnificent view into the open desert from the interior of the house
Another visitor said they enjoyed using private transportation, a private chef, and ‘dreamy yoga’ which came with their stay, adding that ‘the Invisible House lives up to the hype… it’s like something out of a movie’.
Its movie-producer owners embarked on project Invisible House in 2011, and completed its construction in 2019 just in time for the couple to spend the bulk of the Covid-19 pandemic in isolated paradise.
The huge apartment was originally sketched by Chris, who said he was inspired by the black cuboid monolith that appeared in the film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ as well as the work of Bauhaus architects Lugwig Mies van der Rohe.
Van der Rohe is part of a small school of architects credited with transforming the look of American industry – particularly, office buildings in cosmopolitan hubs. He famously designed the Seagram Building in New York City.
The Hanleys own the company which produced The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho and Spring Breakers.
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