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The co-op at 834 Fifth Avenue is the kind that would most certainly disdain denim-wearers at a board interview (current owners include Rupert Murdoch, Paul Cejas and John Gutfreund). But what if you are a denim heiress?
Well, apparently, that’s O.K. According to city records, brokerage baron Charles Schwab and his wife, Helen, have sold their petite penthouse on the building’s 15th floor to Miriam (Mimi) Haas, Levi-Strauss executive Peter Haas’ widow and current chairwoman of the company, for $12.5 million.
One may ask why Mr. and Mrs. Schwab would sell hallowed square footage in the Gold Coast beauty, referred to by many as the superlative residential building in Manhattan. Well, because they currently own both the penthouse upstairs and the significantly larger layout on the ninth floor. In trend with traveling south for the winter, Mr. and Mrs. Schwab scooped up that apartment—six floors south of their winter abode—in 2007. Clearly, the view from the top wasn’t worth the small square footage because the couple famously paid $27.7 million for the ninth-floor apartment (it was listed for $16.5 million).
And with good reason. Brown Harris Stevens broker, Kathryn Steinberg, who has worked extensively in the building but was not involved in this deal, told The Observer, “It’s the nicest building in New York. The size and scale of the rooms are perfect.” Sotheby’s Roger Erickson, who we presume brokered the deal, considering he had the listing, albeit briefly, has said of the creme de Candela’s creme,”It’s as if it were created by someone in heaven who knows exactly how we should live.”
Last September, The Observer reported the Schwabs’ ghost-like listing of the petite affair on the 15th floor. Listed with Mr. Erickson for $14 million, it remained on the market but a New York minute before being taken “permanently off the market,” according to a broker’s database. The phantom listing was not, despite appearances, a chimeric event but rather a rare reminiscence of pre-Lehman zest.
Ms. Haas, who, like the Schwabs, is San Francisco–based, made an offer on the apartment before any other brokers had a chance at it. One broker told The Observer, “The listing was down before anyone had a chance to make an appointment to show it.”
MARIA BERMAN was hopelessly smitten with the working fireplace in her first New York apartment, a third-floor walk-up in Cobble Hill,Brooklyn.
“That fireplace was in use most of the year,” said Ms. Berman, an architect who lived in the apartment in the early 1990s. “For three years I had quarter cords of wood delivered to my doorstep.”
But in 2002, when she moved with a fellow architect named Bradley Horn to an 1898 town house in the Sugar Hill Historic District of Harlem, she gave her heart to another fireplace, one that sat buried in the wall in the front parlor and hadn’t worked for seven decades.
Ms. Berman didn’t care. She discovered a creamy cast-stone mantel at a showroom closeout sale, surrounded the hearth with a toasty slab of Breccia Imperiale marble, and never looked back.
“I don’t miss the fire,” Ms. Berman said. “And I love the look of the surround. It really anchors a room and give it focus.”
When it comes to the attractions of a particular house or apartment, there’s little mystery as to why space-starved New Yorkers are drawn to generous square footage, high ceilings and jaw-dropping views.
But over time, residents find less-obvious design elements unexpectedly alluring, not only faux fireplaces but also weirdly shaped alcoves, a decommissioned dumbwaiter, Juliet balconies, claw-foot bathtubs, minuscule shelves carved into staircases, transoms atop doors, brass keyholes and vintage radiators. The list includes even more unlikely details, among them servants’ buttons, speaking tubes, original metal thermostats and shaving closets. (Most people don’t even know what a shaving closet is: a shallow alcove with a sink just large enough for a man to trim his whiskers.)
These mundane grace notes, which may seem to have little purpose beyond collecting dust, are sometimes the very things residents single out to explain why they are drawn to a particular space. On occasion, these homely accents even prove to be the selling point when it comes to closing a deal.
See full article at the NY Times
Crafting the perfect kitchen, especially in New York City because of space limitations, begins with honing in and being able to put on paper what you’d like to get out of your cooking experience. Ask yourself, ‘What are the post-fundamental functionalities that I’d love to experience in my kitchen.’ Think of all the things you’ve always wished for that go beyond the basics. Allow yourself to go over budget in your mind, because many of these wish-list items will be eliminated later on, anyway.
The best kitchen designs and remodeling are those which incorporate style, functionality, and beauty to bring out the personal style and preferences of the homeowner. In the end you will end up with a personally crafted kitchen that you’ll be proud of for years to come.
Kitchen remodeling is up in Manhattan spurring a new wave of renovations throughout NYC.
The Columbia is a tall yellow-brick condominium at the corner of Broadway and West 96th Street, populated by many families and professionals. On weekday mornings, the lobby bustles with kids scurrying to school and grown-ups hurrying to work. Lately, though, there has been an addition to the hubbub: Contractors, lines of them, waiting for authorization to ascend the elevator to the apartments they are in the process of renovating.
Men with tool belts used to be a common sight around condo and co-op buildings in a city that was renovation-mad. But when the economy collapsed and the real estate market tanked, the contractors, along with the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, floor guys and stone guys, seemed to fade away.
Now they’re coming back. Across the five boroughs and beyond, the renovation business, which fell victim to tightening credit, declining home sales and overall economic misfortune, is starting to pick up. The increase reflects contradictory forces: a fitful but growing sense that the economy is getting better and, at the same time, more subdued ambitions for the future.
“I think a lot of it has to do with people having a longer-term perspective in their home now,” said Doug Milles, a member of the condo board of the 300-unit Columbia. He added, “I’ve always felt personally that it’s a good time to invest in your property during down times, because when things get better, you’re going to have a lot more attractive property.”
Contractors around the region say their phones are starting to ring again.
Read full article in the NY Times
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As if a day walking through the art gallery isles of Chelsea weren’t a field day in itself, The Armory comes into town every year for four days and brings us the world’s most prestigious art galleries as they represent a few of their selected artists. In some instances a gallery would showcase only one of their artists – as was the case with PaceWildenstein in their representation of artist Tony Feher.
The Armory show has been New York’s most prominent gathering on the international contemporary art circuit for nine years running. It is not to be missed.
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