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Perlman never lived in the space, but plenty of other people have stayed there for extended periods. There’s a master bedroom, whose accompanying bathroom has a hot tub/steam bath/shower equipped with an HDTV and waterproof speakers (“they were made for boats”) so that whoever’s living in the loft can relax after hours in the bathtub and watch TV. (A separate shower in the loft merely comes with surround-sound speakers.)
There’s also a kitchen with marble counters, and lounge areas, plus a dining room that doubles as a conference space.
In addition, there are rooms that can be (and have been) repurposed as sleeping areas. “We have an audio room and recording room,” Perlman explains, “and because when you’re doing an audio recording you want the room to be dead, it has anechoic walls.” That means, he continues, that when people used air mattresses to camp out in the audio room overnight, they got to sleep in a room that was blessed with “dead silence, like you’ve never had.”
The core of the loft is a massive lounge/entertainment area, which has hosted performances, screenings, and experiments.
He says that he has mixed feelings about selling the loft. “A lot of my heart and soul went into the creation of it,” he says, adding that with its built-in tech and massive screens, the loft was host to “the best Super Bowl party in San Francisco.”
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.