3 Bedroom 2 Bath Open Cocept Paint Color
BUYER: David ChaseLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $9,650,000SIZE: 2,700 aboveboard feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Last June, a 19th-century townhouse on a abounding artery in New York City’s Chelsea adjacency was awash for $6,950,000. The seller’s character was well-shielded abaft a generically called assurance but was accounted amid acreage watchers and absolute acreage gossips to be seven-time Emmy champ writer/producer David Chase (The Sopranos, Arctic Exposure, The Rockford Files).
Thanks to an advertent informant—let’s alarm him Tommy Twoandtwo—Your Mama has abstruse that the actual aforementioned abstruse assurance associated with the auction of the Chelsea townhouse afresh angled over $9,650,000 for a full-blooded accommodation pad aloft one of the four architectonics that ballast the titanic London Terrace circuitous that encompasses an absolute burghal block in the West Chelsea.
Over the years the massive London Terrace complex, partly comprised of cher rentals and partly comprised of aerial priced condos, has admiring it’s fair allotment of aerial contour association including (but not bound to) Debbie Harry (who owns two baby accumulated units), Tim Gunn (who we’re appealing abiding has confused flush now), extra Katherine Helmond, Nicole Kidman (who busy there briefly a cardinal of years ago), Saturday Night Live casting associates Chris Kattan and Bill Hader and Rufus Wainwright. It additionally happens to be the actual architectonics breadth Your Mama and The Doctor Cooter lived for years in a amazing three bedchamber bifold accommodation breadth we would occasionally get mail for extra Christina Ricci whose mother, we were told, ahead active the apartment.
Anyhoo, for abounding years the 20th attic accommodation in catechism was endemic by influential author, activist and abysmal thinker Susan Sontag who died at 71 in backward 2004. Miz Sontag’s acreage eventually awash the again two bedchamber and two bath accommodation in October 2006 for $3,950,000 to William Diamond, an internationally acclaim autogenous designer/decorator who, forth with adept architectonics accomplice Anthony Barratta, was acclaimed for his cheeky, active and playfully assured use of color.
According to Tommy Twoandtwo, the now-retired Mister Diamond gutted the accommodation but ran into some banking difficulties accepting to do with Ponzi putz Bernie Madoff and was clumsy to complete the renovation. Mister Diamond put the gutted accommodation on the bazaar in aboriginal 2009 and awash it in aboriginal May (2009) for $4,400,000 to an acutely flush but un-famous brace who proceeded with a all-encompassing advance and reconfiguration that replaced best if not all of the penthouse’s aboriginal pre-war architectural details.
Listing advice shows the existing, U-shaped accommodation measures about 2,700 aboveboard anxiety with three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, three copse afire fireplaces, about a dozen closets and three terraces that accommodate added than 1,300 aboveboard anxiety of exoteric space. Maintenance accuse appear to a fair clutching $7,050 per month.
Your Mama ability adopt not to be attractive anon into the kitchen aloft aboriginal entering a ten actor dollar accommodation but the attic plan is contrarily anxiously considered unequivocally efficient. There are those who will bewail the abatement of all the aboriginal pre-war account but if y’all were to ask Your Mama—and no one did— the bare bottomward architectonics allows the blanket about burghal and river angle to booty centermost date from every room.
Even if one hates the adequately basal architecture, the finishes are above abuse and accommodate marvelously over-scaled white oak chevron-pattern balk floors, custom bogus and actually actual casement windows and French doors and a custom, open-concept centermost island kitchen that looks like a bright agreement of amoroso cubes.
A about thirty-foot continued foyer/entrance arcade links the primary active spaces that accommodate a absolute amazing active allowance with broiler and windows on three abandon and and accessible plan kitchen/dining allowance that’s additionally broiled by a fireplace. The kitchen breadth is belted by a laundry allowance on one ancillary and applicant abdomen breadth on the other.
The three bedrooms are lined up forth the arctic ancillary of the accommodation and accommodate two guest/family bedrooms that anniversary accept clandestine bathrooms and absolute terrace access. The adept bedchamber isn’t huge but it’s abreast tucked aback in the northeastern addition of the accommodation and includes a long, closet-lined bathrobe hall, a ample windowed bath and—count ’em—three abstracted exits to a abandoned area of the 50-plus bottom continued arctic ancillary terrace that allows for bare flush angle that accommodate Empire State Architectonics and the Midtown skyline.
listing photos and attic plan: Brown Harris Stevens
