A Former Apple Exec’s San Francisco Apartment Just Hit the Market for $25.5 Million

Wendy Bowman

6 February 2025 at 9:00 am·3-min read

Around 15 years ago, Jon Rubinstein doled out $7 million for a dated San Francisco apartment in a historic residential tower perched atop a hill in San Francisco’s affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood, across from Lafayette Park. Now the former Apple executive has hoisted the revamped residence back on the market, asking a substantially higher $25.5 million. Neal Ward of Compass holds the listing.

Though that’s a whopping $18.5 million more than Rubinstein and his wife Karen Richardson, a former technology and software executive, paid for the place back in late 2010, the couple did spend three years and upwards of $10 million gut-renovating the premises in collaboration with Paul Davis Architects. Gone are the formerly bland 1970s interiors in lieu of an elegant Parisian townhouse-like space boasting custom paneling and moldings, Paul Ferrante lighting, and hand-distressed oak parquet floors in chevron and Versailles patterns. Vast expanses of glass also offer up postcard-worthy views of the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, and beyond.

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Encompassing the entire fourth floor of the 10-story Beaux-Arts-style cooperative building on Washington Street, which was designed in the early 1920s by renowned Bay Area architect Conrad A. Meussdorffer, the Rubinstein home offers four bedrooms and five baths. More than 5,200 square feet of Mirella Forlani-designed living space features an array of posh perks ranging from a climate-controlled wine cellar that can accommodate up to 3000 bottles to a bedroom that’s been converted into a workout area complete with a sauna and steam shower.

A private elevator opens into the entry vestibule, which flows to a window-lined living room sporting a decorative marble fireplace and a conversation nook with French doors opening on either side to iron-railed terraces. Other highlights include a chandelier-topped dining room tucked behind pocketing doors and a handsome walnut-clad study/media room, as well as a sleekly modernized kitchen outfitted with imported Italian Arclinea cabinetry, a stainless island, Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, and a breakfast room.

Sequestered down a hallway is the primary suite, which hosts a dressing room and fitted walk-in closet, along with a compartmentalized bath equipped with dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a glass-encased shower. Each of the three secondary bedrooms has its own bath, one outfitted with the aforementioned sauna and steam shower. Rounding it all out is a hefty $9,519 monthly HOA fee, which covers the building’s doorman and security services, a communal garden, two assigned parking spaces, and storage rooms.

Rubinstein, who was instrumental in developing Apple’s iMac and iPod products as senior vice president of hardware engineering, went on to become CEO of Palm and co-CEO of the global investment management firm Bridgewater Associates. He currently serves on the boards of Amazon and Robinhood. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the couple has decided to sell because they haven’t spent much time in California recently due to work-related travel. “Homes should be used,” said Rubinstein, who also owns a primary Florida residence in the seaside town of Vero Beach.

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