Sure beats the bother of opening a window. There is an additional 6,500 square feet of usable outdoor terraces, decks and gardens and hundreds of feet of electric glass walls that open to them: Push a button and the glass wall retracts and the room is open to the out of doors. The 4,800-square-foot house has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. The modern architectural home, designed by XTEN Architecture, is set on a promontory and seems to float above the city. Listed at $8.25 million, his Hollywood Hills home won the AIA award for best residential design in 2007 and was recently featured on the cover of Architectural Digest.

Now Duke is turning his attention to selling his award-winning house. And while we have no way of knowing whether his designs are lucky charms come awards season, the fact is that Angelina Jolie, Hilary Swank and Marcia Gay Harden all rose to the podium in Duke's designs. Designer Randolph Duke has dressed so many Hollywood starlets that he actually alphabetizes them on his website, presumably to avoid showing favoritism.