Billionaire Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour are the consumers behind the uptown deal.
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The billionaire, art-collecting entrepreneur/writer Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour have purchased a pair of side-by-side townhouses on the Higher East Aspect for $19.99 million, in response to property information.
The historic, landmarked properties — at 67 and 69 E. 93rd St. in Carnegie Hill — had been available on the market for the primary time in many years, asking $25 million.
They include placing particulars like an authentic Otis elevator, a walk-in silver secure and hidden doorways. The majestic mansions had been in-built 1929 and 1931 for businessman George F. Baker Jr. and designed by the structure agency Delano & Aldrich.
The properties had been later owned by funding banker Richard H. Jenrette, the late co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the primary New York Inventory Alternate member to go public — and a famous preservationist, who died in 2018 at age 89.
The itemizing dealer was Joshua Wesoky of Compass.
Brant — the polo-playing writer of Artwork in America, ARTnews and Interview — and Seymour, one of many authentic supermodels, tragically misplaced their beloved son Harry final 12 months.
This isn't the primary time the ability couple purchased a bit of New York Metropolis historical past.
In 2014, they paid $27 million — $2 million over ask — for a four-story house within the East Village that had been in-built 1921, and the place artist and conductor Walter De Maria lived and labored. That house now serves because the Brant Basis Artwork Research Heart.
The Higher East Aspect townhouses — 47 ft huge — are completely preserved, with grand particulars from one other period.
“The properties haven't been touched in 30 years. They want plenty of work, however they're lovely,” a supply mentioned, including that renovations will “run nicely into the hundreds of thousands” of dollars.
No. 67 opens to a proper entry corridor with excessive ceilings, a woodburning fire and authentic marble flooring. French doorways result in a courtyard that connects to No. 69. There’s additionally a dramatic spherical staircase — “probably the most lovely in Manhattan,” brags the itemizing — and an oval eating room with marble inlay flooring, one other fire and wall niches for sculpture.
The second ground, as soon as used for workers, is now a full-floor library and residential workplace — with the unique walk-in silver secure.
Subsequent door, No. 69 boasts a portico with a wrought-iron lantern and a curb reduce that results in apple-green double doorways housing the five-car storage.
The nook lounge has 14-foot ceilings and an “elaborately carved” woodburning fire — the room may additionally connect with the entrance parlor of No. 67.
No phrase but on whether or not the household plans to mix the spreads right into a megamansion.
This isn't the couple’s solely actual property mission both. Final April, Brant and Seymour offered their oceanfront Sagaponack property for $26 million.
A 12 months earlier, in 2020, that they had purchased a $47 million Palm Seaside property from the household of the late Alfred Taubman, the shopping center mogul and chair of Sotheby’s, who was convicted in an public sale home price-fixing scheme.
As well as, Brant and Seymour personal a 50-acre unfold in Greenwich, Conn., referred to as Conyers Farm, which is a gated group that Brant developed. It options the Greenwich Polo Membership, the place the Duke of Sussex — then referred to as Prince Harry — performed in 2013. Previous and present residents of Conyers Farm embrace Tom Cruise, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, and filmmaker Ron Howard.
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