BUYER: Nicole
Kidman and Keith Urban
LOCATION: New York City, NY
PRICE: $10,000,000
SIZE: 3,248 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Word on the celebrity real estate street is that bizzy as a beaver Oscar winning Aussie actress Nicole
Kidman (
Nine, Bewitched, Cold Mountain, The Hours) and her Grammy award winning country-pop music crooning
huzband Keith Urban are moving into the same high profile
New York City building as the
Dolce and
Gabbana boys.
Last fall it was widely reported
here, there, and everywhere that smooth
pated Italian fashion queen Domenico
Dolce, through a trust, forked over a blistering $29,500,000 to purchase two
doo-
plex penthouse units of the critically acclaimed Annabelle
Selldorf designed building recently erected on the corner of 11
th Avenue and West 24
th Street, at the edge of the heart of the Chelsea Arts District and across the street from the
Gagosian Gallery. 14 of the building's 16 apartments, some of the children may recall, comes with a private 300 square foot "En-Suite Sky Garage™", accessed by driving one's luxury automobile into a giant key-lock elevator that magically lifts the car up to the same level as
the the apartment to which it's deeded.
According to the most recent
reports, the
Australian born Kidman-
Urbans plunked down some big American bucks for a
doo-
plex unit that measures 3,248 square feet and includes 3 bedrooms, 3.5
poopers, and two city view loggias.
Miz Kidman and Mister Urban appear to have drove a hard real estate bargain because the puffy lipped actress and her flat iron loving husband reportedly snatched up their new
doo-
plex pied a terre in the Big Apple for $10,000,000, a figure that our bejeweled abacus indicates is a 20% reduction off the $12,500,000 asking price.
The main living spaces are located on the
doo-
plex unit's upper floor and include a 20-foot by 22-foot living room with western views over the Hudson River towards New Jersey, and a combination dining room and a gore-may kitchen with folding oiled teak panels that when closed conceal the kitchen
equipment. Just beyond the kitchen/dining room, a large study/bedroom with walk-in closet and private
pooper has Hudson River views to the west and opens to one of the two covered covered loggias that anchor the eastern corners of the
doo-
plex . A breezeway–a hallway really–with built in storage closets and a powder
pooper links the two loggias and opens into the kitchen as well as to the single car garage in the sky.
The lower floor is accessed by a dramatic staircase that descends from the living room down into a double height great room with two walls of floor to ceiling glass with double glass doors that slide open to glass balustrades that obliterate any visual barrier between the interior spaces and the glittering and enviable views. A guest bedroom with en-suite
pooper sits in the north east corner and the master bedroom includes a wall of closets, dressing area and large windowless
pooper with teak cabinetry and floors, double sinks sitting on a counter top of imported French glazed
lavastone Pyrolave, acid etched mirrors, separate glass enclosed shower, and freestanding honed granite soaking tub.
Amenities in the sleek stainless steel and cast gunmetal glazed
terra cotta clad tower that was carefully designed to maintain an architectural dialogue with the industrial lofts and buildings that surround it include a 24/7 attended lobby, key-lock elevators, cold storage for food deliveries, a second floor fitness center with treatment room, Hudson River views, and terraces, and, of course, those private garages.
In addition to Domenico
Dolce and the
Kidman-
Urbans, other owners of residences in the state of the art building include interior designer
Jamie Drake, a man blessedly unafraid of color who sold his exuberant Flatiron District loft last year for
$2,945,000, and real estate agent extraordinaire
Leonard Steinberg.
Prior to coughing up the cash for this new
doo-
plex condo,
Miz Kidman leased a number of high profile apartments including the old Lenny
Kravtiz penthouse in
SoHo just picked up by Alicia
Keyes and Swiz
Beatz, another penthouse in
SoHo formerly owned by tennis ace Boris Becker and now owned by chat queen Kelly
Ripa and her hunky man-mate Mark
Consuelos, and another large apartment in the same Chelsea building that Your Mama and the Doctor
Cooter once called home.
The alabaster skinned actress and her diminutive
huzband own several luxurious residences around the world including a
contemporary pile in the same Beverly Hills neighborhood as
Cameron Diaz,
Penelope Cruz, and
Jessica Simpson and a 10,925 square foot beast with 7 bedrooms, 8 full and 2 half
poopers in
Nashville, TN that originally all us real estate gossips thought was purchased by
Jessica Simpson.
Miz Kidman and Mister Urban also own a few plum and pricey properties Down Under. In the summer of 2008 it was widely reported that Mister and Missus
Kidman-Urban dropped around $6,500,000 (
AUS) for a 110 acre spread called
Bunya Hill in Sutton Forest, a sleepy and swank enclave in the Southern Highlands about 1.5 hours outside of Sydney.
In the spring of 2009
Miz Kidman dumped her digs in the
Darling Point area for
$13,200,000 (
AUS) after first listing the 4 bedroom waterfront villa a year before with the rumored asking price for
$20,000,000 (
AUS). The
Kidman-
Urbans subsequently scooped up a
$6,500,000 (
AUS)
doo-
plex penthouse apartment on the 21st floor of a converted office building with panoramic views of the scenic Sydney Harbor.
listing photos and floor plan: Prudential Elliman
Top art collector and American Financier Roy Neuberger died at the age of 107 at his home in Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, New York City.
