Lee Radziwill’s Longtime Upper East Side Residence Finds a Buyer
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1/3Photographs Courtesy of Brown Harris StevensSix months after it first appeared on the market, the Upper East Side residence of the late Lee Radziwill has sold for $4.25 million. Originally listed for $5.7 million, the apartment was put up for sale after the interior designer, socialite, and younger sister of Jackie O passed away in February. The new owners will be the first new residents at the address in decades since Radziwill called it home for 30 years.Those new owners, who Mansion Global reports are a business executive and his wife, will enjoy 3 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms spread across the entire 15th floor of the stone co-op in which it is housed. Although much of Radziwill’s furniture—approximately $1.27 million’s worth—was sold at auction the same day the apartment closed, what remains makes clear why Radziwill, in all of her impeccable style, should have stayed so long—hardwood floors, rows of arched windows, built-in bookshelves, and wood-burning fireplaces steep the spaces in prewar charm.Sun-soaked throughout, every space is as graceful as Radziwill was. The living room overlooks a garden terrace below, creating an almost Parisian vibe that reflects the former owner’s love of The City of Light, as she kept a residence there as well.Leslie R. Coleman and Mary K. Rutherford of Brown Harris Stevens handled the storied, light-filled listing.Photographs Courtesy of Brown Harris StevensSix months after it first appeared on the market, the Upper East Side residence of the late Lee Radziwill has sold for $4.25 million. Originally listed for $5.7 million, the apartment was put up for sale after the interior designer, socialite, and younger sister of Jackie O passed away in February. The new owners will be the first new residents at the address in decades since Radziwill called it home for 30 years.Those new owners, who Mansion Global reports are a business executive and his wife, will enjoy 3 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms spread across the entire 15th floor of the stone co-op in which it is housed. Although much of Radziwill’s furniture—approximately $1.27 million’s worth—was sold at auction the same day the apartment closed, what remains makes clear why Radziwill, in all of her impeccable style, should have stayed so long—hardwood floors, rows of arched windows, built-in bookshelves, and wood-burning fireplaces steep the spaces in prewar charm.Sun-soaked throughout, every space is as graceful as Radziwill was. The living room overlooks a garden terrace below, creating an almost Parisian vibe that reflects the former owner’s love of The City of Light, as she kept a residence there as well.Leslie R. Coleman and Mary K. Rutherford of Brown Harris Stevens handled the storied, light-filled listing.
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