As the Frick Collection reopened this week, art lovers are flocking to the Upper East Side — where a swanky apartment overlooking the now-renovated museum is on the market for $14.9 million.
The dwelling, at 2 E. 70th St., comes with three bedrooms and three baths — and it has been gut-renovated by renowned AD 100 designer Thad Hayes, whose posh clients include billionaire Leonard Lauder and fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
The sellers are investor David Hamamoto, a former Goldman Sachs executive, and his wife Martha, who purchased the unit for $13.25 million in 2013, according to StreetEasy.
The elegant living room. Nina Poon
The formal dining room gives its own peek of the newly reopened museum. Nina Poon
A look inside the wood-paneled den. Nina Poon
Currently a home office, this room could also function as an additional bedroom. Nina PoonIt’s an especially timely listing, given its prime view of the Frick, which underwent a dazzling $220 million, five-year renovation that nearly doubled its footprint — work that was nearly a century in the making. It reopened to the public on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the home is elegant in its own right. It opens from a private elevator landing into a 20-foot foyer.
Next is a large corner living room with grand proportions: 10-foot ceilings, a woodburning fireplace and four French windows — with three facing Central Park, and the third overlooking Fifth Avenue and the Frick.
There’s also a windowed chef’s kitchen, a formal dining room and a wood-paneled library/den, decorated in a handsome dark tone.
The butler’s pantry. Nina Poon
The living room boasts three windows overlooking the park and one with a view of the Frick. Nina Poon
The windowed galley chef’s kitchen, which also looks to the museum. Nina PoonA main bedroom suite also overlooks the Frick gardens and comes with a wall of custom closets, and a spa-like windowed marble bath with radiant heated floors and a glass-enclosed limestone steam shower.
An adjacent room currently set up as an office could also function as an additional bedroom.
One of the home’s three bedrooms. Nina Poon
Another sunny bedroom. Nina PoonThe sale includes a separate staff room on the third floor, along with a separate storage room. Maintenance for the apartment is $13,564 a month; maintenance for the staff room is $417.98 a month.
It’s all in a 14-story prewar Rosario Candela building that dates to 1927. The listing brokers are Tania Isacoff Friedland, Allison L. Chiaramonte and Sarah Minton of Compass.
