Ellen DeGeneres Buys Brody House by the. Quincy Jones

It’s been called everything from a mid century masterpiece towards best house in L . a .. For Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi the A. Quincy Jones-designed gem, known as “The Brody House”, is simply called home.

After pulling off a few of the biggest property deals of 2013, the celebrity couple have scored an earlier coup in 2014 with the purchase of the pristine pad. Confirmed through the L . a . Times, DeGeneres and de Rossi have reportedly paid $39.888 million to the midcentury modern abode found right next door towards Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills.

A lot like “The Andrew Fuller House” in Dallas, the trophy home sports a shapely design with smooth-walled interiors, spotless finishes, a watch-opening atrium and beautifully manicured grounds. Walls of glass and vaulted ceilings add an expansive feel on the 13,511-square-foot floor plan, that has six bedrooms, nine baths, a chef’s kitchen along with a lounge roomserviced apartment for rent in HaNoi having a library.

ellen-degeneres-a-quincy-jones-brody-house-9Jones, whose works have grown to be quite coveted in celebrity circles, designed the house in 1949 in partnership with interior decorator Billy Haines and landscape architect Garrett Eckbo. Your home first replaced this year for $14.888 million and was restored by designer Stephen Stone before being flipped for the trophy home-collecting DeGeneres.

That DeGeneres and de Rossi are in it again may come as little surprise. The famous property addicts/amateur designers produced many of the biggest celebrity real property headlines in 2013 that has a volume of deals. Besides purchasing a dreamy estate in Montecito in May for $26.5 million, the duo pocketed $10.85 million with a serviced apartment for rent in HaNoi Hidden Valley, CA, a dreamy ranch that DeGeneres herself reimagined.