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THE PLAZA
A nine room penthouse duplex on the Plaza's northwest corner that truly lives like a "house in the sky". Accessed by a 45 foot entry foyer with both sweeping circular staircase and private elevator, this classic home offers up to four bedrooms plus a library. The living room, formal dining room and spacious kitchen with breakfast area all face north toward Central Park, while a handsome library enjoys western views and a wood-burning fireplace. Upstairs, a 350 square foot gallery space leads via French doors to a 22 foot park view terrace. The enormous corner master bedroom suite, also with wood-burning fireplace, offers dual bath and dressing accommodations and a second private terrace high above the park. Ample guest and/or children's rooms enjoy sun-flooded exposures to the south. Unique among the Plaza Private Residences, Penthouse 2001 combines the characteristics of a traditional prewar duplex with contemporary design elements to reflect a lifestyle that is, at...
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.
KAYNE NYC APT
In a stroke of architectural chutzpah Mister West hired genius Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin to do over the interiors. The result is a sculptural, elegant and austere space wrapped in French limestone and pear wood that's absolutely stunning to look although, admittedly, not so easy to imagine cluttered with the detritus of everyday life. The 1 bedroom and 1.5 pooper apartment–at least we think it's got 1.5 poopers–has a continuous and interrupted flow from the long, gently curving entrance hall to the seamless integration between kitchen an living room and then into the bedroom area that is flanked by a large dressing room and a monolithic, trough-like limestone sink. The windows are covered in floor to ceiling shades through which filtered light creates a soft shadow pattern that plays beautifully against the rigorous geometry of the interior architecture. This interplay of soft light and shadow combined with the warm, organic quality of the materials–the limestone an...