L.A.’s House of Davids De-Tackified

The House of Davids is no more. Located in Hancock Park, the nineteen bright white copies of Michelangelo’s David lining the driveway long made the home a notorious L.A. landmark and mecca to gape-mouthed tourists. The interior was adorned in a similarly over-the-top design, with David busts, outsized white furniture and sculptures, clear Lexan dining room chairs suspended from the ceiling, a gold tub, and glossy Greco-Roman marble floors.
R&B singer Norwood Young is the man with the aesthetic, according to a 2011 Curbed Los Angeles post having, “lived, decorated, and pissed off the neighbors on Muirfield Street since the nineties.” Young initially rented the residence, then bought it in 1997 for $1.2 million. He listed it in 2011 for $2.4 million, in April of 2012 accepting a $1.45 million offer from an unidentified real estate investor who then renovated the place, removing all traces of Norwood’s distinctive tastes.
In an updated post last week, Curbed now describes the home as “just one more thing a flipper has Pottery Barned to death.” It’s listed at $2.9 million.