AD Top 100 Designer, Ambition Fails to Achieve Desired Results

What happens when you mix ambition, a classic prewar apartment, and the forward-thinking stylings of an AD Top 100 interior designer? If apartment 3D at 116 East 63rd Street is to be any indication, other than an impromptu before-and-after - not much.

Unit 3D was purchased in 2008 for $3.045 million. It was then spruced up, re-furnished, and repainted (from a deep red to what we will call 'not-red'). The kicker? It was re-listed thereafter for a mere $2.995 million. The real kicker? The price has subsequently dropped to $2.650 million. We think an above-asking offer is in order here.

116 East 63rd Street, Prudential Elliman

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Oxygen Network Co-Founder Lists at 41 CPW for $14.5 Million

Notable, yet currently unemployed television executive Geraldine Laybourne and her husband, Kit, have decided to list their $14.5 million Central Park West apartment. The eight-room unit boasts a 75-foot park-front terrace and several wood-burning fireplaces, one of which includes the Latin saying for "Strive to be the Highest." (How appropriate for the building's penthouse.) The apartment is located in Harpley Hall, the famed 'Arts and Crafts' style prewar building by architect Henry Wilhelm Wilkinson.

Laybourne is known for reinventing the Nickelodeon network and for co-founding the Oxygen Network with Oprah Winfrey. She also liked to networks after things she had a lot of (e.g., fresh air). 

It's no easy feat, but for the clever buyer there are - believe it or not - a few ways to get an illustrious south of the highway address in the Hamptons for about $1 million. To prove it, we'll run through three $1 million listings that are - if anything - at least on the right side of the tracks.

Read about the Ocean Ave Coop, the Waterfront Townhouse in Water Mill, and the Antique Colonial on Halsey Lane.

73 East 73rd Street: The Buckley Maisonette

If you've got $12 million lying around, we suggest you direct those bills to the purchase of the maisonette at 73 east 73rd street, dubbed by Brown Harris Stevens "a piece of New York's intellectual history." The listing explains that the maisonette - and the prominent Buckley family that lived there - hosted international political figures" and "notable film and television stars" alike. So if you're thinking what we're thinking, then yes, "intellectual history" might be a stretch.

The Buckley Maisonette, Brown Harris Stevens

The Countess on what's really important in her new pied-a-terre: "I don’t want to be really high, but I don’t want to be where I have a building in front of me where I don’t get sun because I’m not high enough, so…"

Real Housewives of New York's LuAnn on what she's looking for in a new pied-a-terre: Fire place, I would love to have a fire place, I would love to have like a little office area; A balcony, a little place to go outside; Light; Prewar; High ceilings. I don’t like these little galley kitchens, I don’t want that. I don’t want to be really high, but I don’t want to be where I have a building in front of me either where I don’t get sun because I'm not high enough.

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Test Della Femina

News that Jerry Della Femina (of East Hampton's Della Femina) was to sell his oceanfront estate on Drew Lane left us hungry for a look inside the 'ad man's' pad. And today, that hunger was fulfilled not because the listing's new photos portray a remarkably grand or beautiful estate, but because the shots have "I'm in Advertising!" proudly written all over them. 

We've seen staging before, but never like this! Check the blue and white dishware peaking out of the kitchen cabinetry. $40 million price tags be dammed when you can whip up an omelet in that.

Lily Pond Lane Magnificence, Corcoran Group

Jerry Della Femina asks $40 million for East Hampton home, Real LI