The couple purchased the six-bedroom 1850s townhouse, listed for practically $20 million, for $13.5 million 5 years in the past.
About 4 years after Australian showbiz energy couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin had their “artfully curated” Manhattan townhouse photographed for Elle Decor, the frequent artistic and professional collaborators have hoisted the flamboyantly appointed Stuyvesant Sq. residence onto the market with an asking worth so near $20 million that it would as nicely be $20 million.
The couple bought the nineteenth century Anglo-Italianate residence — initially constructed by a Brooklyn-based service provider — nearly 5 years in the past, in 2017, for $13.5 million. They quickly launched into an epic renovation spearheaded by Martin, a dressing up designer and set designer whose work has earned her 4 Oscars, that are displayed within the townhouse’s itty-bitty music room, for the Luhrmann written and directed movies Moulin Rouge (2002) and The Nice Gatsby (2013).
The Gatsby-esque mansion dates to the 1850s, with a good-looking three-bay façade, arched home windows and doorways, and a foliate sample wrought-iron railing alongside the Juliet balcony that runs the width of the 28-foot-wide, five-floor residence’s second flooring. Measuring about 8,500 sq. ft, with extra FAR (flooring space ratio), in response to listings held by Steve Gold of The Corcoran Group, there are six bedrooms, three of them extra spacious than the opposite three, and 5 loos, plus two extra powder rooms for company.
The couple’s shared penchant for theatricality is evidenced within the saturated colours, wealthy textures, quite a few curved staircases, and eye-dazzling wall coverings all through. The identical intricately geometric paper was utilized in two totally different colours — black within the entrance corridor and cellar-level screening room, and emerald within the combo eating room/lounge, whereas the parlor-level major bed room is swaddled in a jungle sample rendered in earth tones, and the first rest room showcases a extra delicate, pale and spare sample that includes tropical plantings.
The Clive Christian-designed eat-in kitchen has dramatic inky black cupboards offset with white marble and gleaming stainless-steel, a walk-in pantry bigger than many Manhattan studio flats, and entry to the 1,000-square-foot rear backyard. Different notable particulars, as specified by the New York Submit, embrace excessive ceilings, dark-stained parquet flooring, 5 fireplaces, one in all them wood-burning, and authentic moldings.
A jewel field of an elevator, completed to the identical fantastical requirements as the remainder of the home, companies all 5 flooring, together with the cellar, the place there’s a bonus room/studio with connected powder room, in addition to the highest flooring, which is at the moment configured as an impartial suite full with two lounges, a bar, an workplace, a small fitness center, a bed room, and two loos.
The wildly imaginative couple, who beforehand owned an equally eye-popping 20-room mansion in Sydney, Australia, have paired up as soon as once more for the upcoming biopic Elvis, which Luhrmann wrote, directed and produced, and Martin produced, together with dealt with the set and costume design. Count on a barn burner, a completely realized and richly detailed cinematic expertise not so in contrast to their soon-to-be former Manhattan residence.
This story initially ran on Dust.com, which has extra photographs.