Benedikt Taschen Lists 1950s Beverly Hills Home for $25 Million

Benedikt Taschen is well-known for buying and then putting his own stylish touch on architecturally significant homes. In Los Angeles, the contemporary art collector and founder of Taschen Books—the renowned global publisher of coffee table art and design books—owns the spaceship-like Chemosphere in the Hollywood Hills, crafted by John Lautner in 1960. He also lays claim to a 1930s Colonial Revival mansion created by Roland Coate for Gone with the Wind producer David O….