The renovation goes well beyond what is immediately visible. Central air, new electrical, and a Josh AI Smart Home technology for sound, lighting, and window treatments form the infrastructure behind interiors executed with Venetian plaster walls, handmade plaster moldings, custom SA Baxter hardware, silk moiré, and hand-painted wallcoverings. Materials repeat from room to room in different ways, giving the apartment a sense of continuity without making the spaces feel uniform.
With 9 ft ceilings throughout, the sunny and serene south-facing living room is composed around a fireplace, with pale finishes and sculptural fluted plaster furnishings creating a quiet counterpoint to the rooms beyond. The kitchen shifts the palette completely, pairing darker finishes with a La Cornue range, dark black granite, and rich custom cabinetry. That deeper tone continues into the dining room, where bold red lacquered walls and crimson tile flooring create one of the apartment's most distinctively original spaces.
The moods of the bedrooms are very different. The primary bedroom, with its blue-grey silk moiré and hand-painted wallcoverings is dark and moody, with generous custom closet space, and an ultra-luxury statement blue grey marble bath with heated floors, soaking tub, and Waterworks fixtures. The second bedroom, currently arranged as a library, takes a different direction with ochre tones, travertine accents, velvet furnishings, custom bookshelves, its own carefully selected lighting, and exquisitely crafted crème colored marble bath (also appointed in fixtures by Waterworks).
Built in 1927, the building offers a 24-hour attended lobby, a live-in Resident Manager, a gym, laundry facilities, and storage. Pets and pieds-a-terre are welcome, and the building recently now permits washer/dryer in unit.
Nothing about this home reads as an accumulation of upgrades. The brilliant culmination is the completeness of its composition. From the plasterwork and hardware to the curated furniture and finishings already placed within the rooms, the residence has been conceived, executed, and furnished as a true work of art.
Located on one of the prettiest tree-lined streets in the heart of Sutton Place, near the finest restaurants, shopping, and the vibrancy of midtown Manhattan, a trophy property like this only comes around once.
Please note there is a flip tax of 2% of the sales price.
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Sutton Place is usually described with favorable words like charming, cozy, great neighborhood, hidden gem, sanctuary, or even small village inside a big city. Those descriptions aren’t from real estate folks either, they’re from the people that live and work there, so it must be true.
The quiet and upscale neighborhood is more like an enclave. It’s bounded by East 53rd Street to the south, East 59th Street to the North, First Avenue to the west, and the East River to the east. Most residents will tell you that everything you’ll ever need is located in the neighborhood. When it’s time to venture out into the cityscape, Sutton Place is within easy reach to Midtown and cultural attractions like the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, Central Park and other iconic sites.
Manhattan has always had notable celebrity residents. But for unknown reasons, Sutton Place has had more than its share of superstars over the years. Some of the more iconic celebs include: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Freddie Mercury, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Crawford, Michael Jackson and sister Latoya (Just for one summer).
Sutton Place is named after Effingham B. Sutton, a shipping merchant and entrepreneur. After hitting it big in the California gold rush, Sutton built brownstones along East 57th and East 58th streets with aspirations of making the section more residential. Poverty and crime dashed his dreams. The street gangs that hung out along the dead-ends and cul-de-sacs added to the neighborhood’s decay. Sutton was about to give up on his development endeavors but the Vanderbilt’s and the Morgan’s showed up in the 1920s and transformed the neighborhood. It soon became a wealthy enclave.