“I am entering a very exciting phase of my life, if I do say so myself,” Ellen Pompeo says at the start of her feature in Architectural Digest. Spotlighting Ellen, 53, and husband Chris Ivery’s “teak-sheathed modernist structure” in Malibu. The couple bought the home, designed by midcentury architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman, from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman a decade ago, but Ellen tells AD, “I like to say I manifested this house.”
The house is called “modestly sized” at 3,000 square feet. It was “designed more as a machine for living than a mogul’s mansion,” per AD, but makes up for intimacy and drama “thanks to its central courtyard and phenomenal ocean views.” Because of its proximity to the ocean, the property was damaged by all…
