Benedikt and Lauren Taschen, ARTnews Top 200 collectors, have listed the Adelman Residence in Beverly Hills for $25 million through Carolwood Estates.

The 5,000-square-foot mid-century modern house was designed in 1956 by architects Thornton Abell and O'Neil Ford. The Taschens bought it in 2018, when it carried a $12.75 million asking price, and have spent the past eight years restoring it. The work covered the tennis court — original to the property from the era when it formed part of Charlie Chaplin's estate — the pool, the gardens, and the guest house, as well as the interior architectural details: cork floors, sliding Shoji screens, and a small wood-paneled elevator.

Barnard Taschen founded Taschen Books in 1980. The company has become one of the best-known publishers of coffee table-style art and design books, operating under the tagline "books for optimists." As a collector, Taschen owns works by many artists of his own generation, among them Tom of Finland, Albert Oehlen, Jeff Koons, and Martin Kippenberger.

The listing photos also show several large colorful paintings by Grace Weaver, an American artist in her '30s: a portrait of a woman's head in profile in the entryway, a triptych hung above the headboard in a bedroom, and a large-scale painting of a striding figure in the living room.

Taschen told the New York Times that other bidders on the property in 2018 intended to tear it down and rebuild. "All they loved was the beautiful site to build another spec monster," he recounted in an email. He ultimately purchased the house from a family member of its original owners, Lucy and Isadore B. Adelman. The property sits across the street from the colonial revival estate he has lived in since 2017.

"We wanted to preserve a piece of history in ground zero of the golden age of Hollywood," Taschen told the Times.

The $25 million asking price nearly doubles the $12.75 million the Taschens paid seven years ago — a figure that now reflects both the Los Angeles luxury market and the couple's eight-year restoration of a house other bidders were prepared to demolish.