Though it was never officially on the market, Tatiana von Fürstenberg's extravagant Palos Verdes Estates residence known as "Casa Felicia" has sold to the next-door neighbors for exactly $14 million, a notably large number for the area.

Records reveal the buyers are Edward and Marcia Dawson — founders of Social Vocational Services, a Torrance-based nonprofit that offers support programs for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities — who have long owned an adjacent property.

When combined with their estate on the same street, this purchase gives the Dawsons nearly 3 acres of prime South Bay land atop Malaga Cove, plus two homes — one a historic 1920s villa, and the other that they paid $1 million for in 1993 — with a total of seven bedrooms, 10 baths and almost 9,300 square feet of living space between them.

The $14 million estate was originally owned by landscape architect Frederick Olmsted Jr. — designer and planner of the Palos Verdes Peninsula — who received the land as a gift and then custom-built the Spanish-inspired mansion in collaboration with noted architect Myron Hunt. Von Fürstenberg — the daughter of famed fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg and stepdaughter of billionaire media mogul Barry Diller— paid $12 million for the place some seven years ago, back in summer 2016.

Tucked away behind a gated driveway and spacious brick courtyard bolstered by a tiered fountain, the two-story stucco and terracotta-roof structure is perched amid a 1.5-acre blufftop parcel overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Bay. Inside, four bedrooms and five baths are spread across a little more than 4,200 square feet boasting hand-carved doors, tile floors, plaster walls, vaulted ceilings and ornamental wood pillars throughout.

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