When Dr. Jean Cukier was ready to build his dream house in West University Place, he sat down with pencil and paper and drew it himself. He was taken with the Star Wars blockbuster movies and wanted his home to be as imposing as the biggest baddest guy in the show: “Star Wars” Darth Vader.
Nadia Carron, who with Wade Knight are co-listing agents for the Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty listing that has been on the market for one day, said that the home’s resemblance to the Darth Vader’s helmet and its nickname as the “Darth Vader House” are not a coincidence.
Real estate brokers got a first-day look at the place, and a few private showings have already been set up for potential buyers, including rapper 50 Cent — Curtis James Jackson III — who has expressed an interest in the house since his recent move to Houston, according to Carron.
The home is listed for $4.3 million — that’s $610.80 per square foot. According to the Harris County Appraisal District records, the home was built in 1992 and its 7,040 square feet include four bedrooms and five bathrooms. (Just FYI: its property tax bill is around $64,000 a year.)
Cukier’s children are grown and on their own, and the home was too much for one person to ramble around in, Carron said, so Cukier, a plastic surgeon, is downsizing to a smaller home.
The so-called “Darth Vader House” at the corner of University Boulevard and Buffalo Speedway has never been on a home tour and has never been photographed — at least not with the permission of its owner. So the online listing and upcoming showings will be the first time anyone other than Cukier and his friends and family have seen inside the unusual home.
“He loved the movies. That was his inspiration,” Carron said of the “Star Wars” series. “He sat down and drew on paper how he wanted the house to look inside and outside and worked with an architect to do that. What you see is his baby and his design inside and outside of the house. He made his dream come true.”
The home is situated on a corner lot so the “nose” of the helmet points to the corner. Its roof is slightly angled and flat on top, and short stone walls are angled as well. Clerestory windows, when they’re lit up, look like the eyes of the home.
Though the home’s curbside view is imposing, its back is inviting, filled with enormous windows that look out to the grassy backyard.
Interiors are just as quirky as the home’s exterior. with jagged pieces of black and white flooring forming odd shapes, funky steps leading to a sunken living room, raw edges on stone counters and a number of rooms with angled walls.
“It’s definitely not the norm in West U, where you see more traditional and classic modern homes. This was completely out of the norm and he got a ton of pushback from the city when he was getting permits approved,” Carron said.
diane.cowen@chron.com
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