Ich bin ein Berlin-er: The one-time house of the actress and photographer (above) discovered a purchaser.
Matthew McDermott
It’s picture-perfect.
A Kips Bay condominium owned by the late Brigid Berlin — an Andy Warhol pal and movie star credited with pioneering the selfie again in Polaroid type — has bought for $1.17 million, based on sources.
It went available on the market for $1.35 million final 12 months; its ultimate ask was $1.25 million.
Berlin, who died in 2020 on the age of 80, had beforehand tried promoting this co-op, situated at 140 E. twenty eighth St. As we reported in 2013, she tried promoting the unit within the Emery Roth-designed constructing for $1.2 million — and had bought it in 1986 as a result of it was close to Warhol’s studio, in addition to household.
“I need to transfer uptown to be nearer to my sister,” she stated. “I like this condominium … and I created a lot artwork from right here.”
The constructing additionally sparked a two decades-long relationship between Berlin and Rob Vaczy, a multimedia producer nearly half her age who moved right into a unit on the constructing’s fifth flooring in 2001.
In keeping with the New York Occasions, the 2 had been briefly lovers and later companions. Vaczy finally turned her caregiver and inheritor to the condominium.
Though she had a wild trip with Warhol on the Manufacturing facility, the place she dipped her breasts in paint to create artwork and was not often with out her Polaroid digital camera and tape recorder — mates like Robert Rauschenberg and John Chamberlain thought of her an equal — she remained an avid Republican like her dad and mom.
The condominium, partially, mirrored these conservative tastes, full of wallpaper exhibiting flowers, stripes and chintz just like the properties she grew up in, on Fifth Avenue and in Rye, the place guests included Richard Nixon, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and J. Edgar Hoover. (The Occasions described Berlin’s condominium as “a ladylike pink-and-green Palm Seaside fantasia.”)
Residence particulars embody excessive ceilings, hardwood flooring, a woodburning fire and an extended entry corridor with an arched doorway.
There are additionally 5 walk-in closets, and views of the Empire State Constructing and a portion of the Chrysler Constructing’s prime.
The house opens to a proper entry and includes a eating area that may seat 12 for meals, whereas the lounge includes a wall of customized built-in bookcases.
There’s additionally a windowed kitchen and a important bed room nook suite with a dressing room. Constructing facilities embody a landscaped roof deck.
The itemizing dealer was Douglas Elliman’s Elyse Dubin.
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