Belli Video Project
Robert L. Lieff and Law Partner Melvin Belli 1965-1972
A Glass House in Napa Wine Country
Robert Lieff, founder of the law firm Lieff Cabraser, purchased this 22-acre property in Rutherford Napa Valley. ‘I just saw so many houses around there that were like ‘McMansions’—I had no interest in that,’ he said. Robert commissioned Scott Johnson FAIA for this corrugated steel and glass home, which over the years has won plaudits for its design.
When the Second Time’s the Charm
Bellosguardo Foundation
Robert serves on the Board of Directors of the Bellosguardo Foundation. The nonprofit foundation, which was formed with the help of the New York Public Administrator’s office and the N.Y. Attorney General’s Charitable Division Bureau, will work to determine the future of Bellosguardo, the bluff top estate overlooking Santa Barbara’s East Beach that was owned by the late heiress Huguette Clark. Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104, and, in her will, directed that this iconic property be used for the fostering and promotion of the arts.