This is what a townhouse looks like...!
23 Gramercy Park South last year for $18.5 million. The buyers of the 27-foot-wide landmark were Colombian heir Andrés Santo Domingo and his wife, socialite and Vogue contributor Lauren Santo Domingo. Apparently they weren't completely satisfied with their purchase, because the house is about to undergo a serious renovation.
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Her grand homes were works of art themselves—or not, depending on whom you asked. In the early Nineties designer Gabhan O’Keeffe decorated her place near the Eiffel Tower in bright red, kelly green and cool blue, with a dining table that could fit 40. When fellow socialite Rosemarie Kanzler described the place as “bad Visconti,” Schlumberger retaliated, as WWD reported in 1995, by telling a group of dinner guests, “Poor Rosemarie must be terminally ill to say those things. You know that she has never been here?”
Schlumberger, who died this past August, was equally daring with her clothing. In 1996 WWD wrote that she drew gasps at the Palais Garnier opera house when she entered on the arm of Japanese billionaire Yoichi Yogi Nishikawa—the two were dressed in “matching sequined tiger-print” getups, hers a Christian Lacroix. No outfit, of course, was complete without baubles. As she griped to W in 1987, “There is nothing more annoying than seeing a woman with the means to buy anything she wants who always wears the same piece of jewelry.”
Travel was also a passion, but the extravagant socialite was difficult to impress. As W reported in 1994, on a trip to Saint Petersburg with Hélène de Ludinghausen and the Stroganoff Foundation, her fellow travelers marveled at a lapis lazuli urn in the Hermitage while Schlumberger all but yawned, stating, “It’s all relative.”