When Your Mansion Is Your Fortress: The Desert’s Safest–and Most Stylish–New Estate

When Your Mansion Is Your Fortress: The Desert’s Safest–and Most Stylish–New Estate

Developed by Modern Masterpieces, Elysium  sets a new bar for privacy, technology,  livability and philanthropy, with a significant portion of the luxury compound’s sale price donated to charity.

This state-of-the-art fortress at 11612 N 86th Street, Scottsdale, spans seven bedrooms, merging 2,100 square feet of sliding smart-glass walls with resort-level outdoor amenities—securing it all behind compound-grade protection and a pressurized NBC safe room. For its Arizona debut,  Vesta Home—the luxury design and furniture studio—styled and furnished every room, with all pieces available to purchase with the property. 

Security is quietly integrated indoors and out: A layered privacy garden wraps the estate; laminated security glazing is used throughout; and a steel-and-glass pivot entry door employs a 13-point locking system. The monitored perimeter blends into the landscape (laser trip lines, contact sensors, and 32 discreet AI-enabled cameras). 

Modern Masterpieces was built by developer David Widerhorn—an Inc. magazine 30 Under 30 honoree—with philanthropy at its core, donating a minimum of 20% of profits to the Darash Ahava Foundation. For Elysium specifically, the developer has pledged an additional $500,000 to support the Foundation’s mission of free emotional and spiritual healing for children and adults—uniting ultra-luxury design with measurable community impact.

“Elysium represents the pinnacle of luxury living and the heart of giving,” says Widerhorn. “Alongside redefining design, we’ve pledged additional proceeds from this project to ensure the estate changes both landscapes and lives.” 

Elysium’s high-end design and security features result in a house that serves as architecture in daylight and a luxury fortress at night. Vesta Home’s senior designer Lisa Vail selected a material-driven furnishing plan—plaster, polished stone, Namibian granite—to translate the scale into comfortable spaces and  let the home’s unique character take center stage.

“We answered the ‘luxury compound’ brief with warmth—rounded forms outside, soft textiles inside—so the scale feels human and the spaces welcome you in,” says Vail. “The design leads you through the flow; spaces feel cohesive yet each has its own personality. The bedrooms’ huge sliding doors that completely retract give an indoor/outdoor and a private sanctuary feel.”

At the heart of Elysium, the open-plan kitchen, dining and living area reads as one calibrated sequence for entertaining. A long warm-wood dining table with upholstered armchairs runs parallel to a sculptural dark-stone bar crowned by a linear field of pendants, while illuminated shelving and a back-lit Cristallo quartzite feature wall (with integrated media) shifts from soft amber to vivid blue, cueing the room from day to evening. 

Vesta’s tonal furnishings, including the low-profile Kennedy sofa, boucle accent chairs and a grounded matte black coffee table, keep sightlines clear so the stone and lighting can perform. 

Elysium’s great room opens on two sides to a deep, covered loggia, a true outdoor living room for entertaining. Vesta echoed the interior palette outside: with the Valletta modular sofas in performance neutrals, woven lounge chairs and sculptural pebble tables that read like desert boulders. 

Past the Cabo sun loungers is the pool pavilion—complete with dual screen TVs—so gatherings flow from bar to terrace to the Black Diamond-finish pool without losing the conversation. From golden hour, the pool pavilion shifts from private restaurant to alfresco lounge. 

Descend to the below-grade ramada—20 seats plus swim-up stools—where chef-driven service runs off a commercial BBQ, smoker and wood-fired pizza oven beneath a retractable pergola. As the sun drops, a submerged Cristallo quartzite firepit set on a Namibian granite hearth comes alive, casting ripples of light across the porcelain deck.

Elysium’s seven bedrooms were furnished as quiet retreats: bouclé and linen layered against warm wood paneling, honed stone and soft metals. The primary reads like a private lounge; behind glass, the bath glows from a backlit translucent stone wall. In this suite the statement surfaces do the talking: a vein-cut stone headwall, Vesta’s crescent Bayonne sofa in blush velvet and the  Bogota coffee table with a limestone top—calm curves that soften the architecture. 

“There will never be another property like Elysium,” says  Ari Jakobov, founder of The Jakobov Group at eXp Realty, the brokerage handling the listing. “It’s not simply a home—it’s a compound, and a private resort with government level security, ideal for buyers seeking the rarest level of luxury and peace of mind.” 

11612 N 86th Street is offered at $15,000,000 with all Vesta Home furnishings available for purchase.

Developed by Modern Masterpieces

Staging and Furniture by Lisa Vail for Vesta Home

Listed by Ari Jakobov, The Jakobov Group, eXp Realty

Project Management by Meg Campbell, Vesta Home

Photography by CB Visual Designs