Fears that Apple's chief designer Jonathan Ive give up work in Cupertino and will return to the UK, have not been confirmed. 2 years senior manager lives in a luxurious villa in San Francisco, which he agreed to show reporters inside The Wall Street Journal.
House with a view of the bay of San Francisco, located in the most prestigious part of the city on Gold Coast, cost Quince $ 17 million. The building has five floors with a total area of 676 square meters. m, six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a library and a garden of oak. The house was built in 1927 and designed by the renowned architectural bureau Willis Polk & Co., on account of which many buildings in the city.
Jonathan Ive paid for the villa twice more than worth the house in which he lived with his family Apple founder Steve Jobs. The erection of the mansion of the inventor iPhone in Palo Alto at a cost of $ 8,450,000.
47-year-old Jonathan Ive is one of the key employees of Apple. Under his leadership, a new image of popular products, including the design of smart phones iPhone, multimedia player iPod, tablets iPad, desktop computer "all-in-one» iMac, software interfaces operating systems iOS 7 and OS X Yosemite.
Ive was born in London, and then moved to the United States, where he lives with his wife and child. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the title of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The honorary title was awarded the senior vice president of Apple «for services to science." He was a close friend of the late CEO Steve Jobs.