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Our Monday Morning Millionaire at  8891 Jourdan Way is the most beautiful Preston Hollow French Renaissance estate  you’ve ever seen. And it also has an unmatched architectural pedigree . It was designed by renowned architect Peter Marino , who brings an unprecedented level of elegance and luxury to everything he touches. Marino apprenticed under I.M. Pei and George Nelson. Early in his career, he designed Andy Warhol ’s private home, Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Bergé’s Manhattan apartment, and the Park Avenue apartment of Gianni and Marella Agnelli. When Barney’s was owned by the Pressmans they hired him to mastermind their displays. He’s also designed just a few luxury stores — 30 for Chanel, 20 for Luis Vuitton, and 15 for Dior. Armani, Arnault, and Rothschild are among the more recent clients he will name. Private residences make up only about a quarter of his projects. If you can nab him to design your home, you’ve lucked out. There is simply no one better.  If you are lookin...

Jason LaVeris / FilmMagic / Getty Images I don’t remember when Joss Whedon went from being a garden-variety household name to being someone I refer to on a first-name basis. I quote Joss, I verb Joss, I adjective Joss . As a woman who was once a teenage girl who grew up with Buffy, I’ve internalized more than my fair share of lessons from Our Lady of Buffdom. For the better part of twenty years, I’ve known Joss Whedon as the creator of a feminist hero. For the better part of the same twenty years, Kai Cole knew Joss Whedon as her partner and husband. He was just Joss to her, too — far more intimately Joss than to any of his first-name-basis-ing fans. This weekend, Cole wrote about her divorce with Joss in a post on The Wrap . She writes about how, on their honeymoon in England in 1995, she encouraged him to turn his script for Buffy the Vampire Slayer — which had just been misinterpreted as a film — into a television show. Joss apparently hadn ’t wanted to work in television anym...