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Architectural Gem: This One-Bedroom at 35 Sutton Place Has Verve

By: Jason Sheftell
Published: 2/25/2011Source: New York Daily News

The words open-space loft and Sutton Place usually go together like log cabin and upper East Side, but this stylish apartment on the 16th floor overlooking the East River has to be one of the most highly customized homes in this part of the city.

 

The dining area overlooks the 59th St. Bridge square, its steel beams looming. The bamboo floors, white walls and natural light mean the place can double as a small art museum. There’s a treadmill hidden in a bedroom closet with its own flat-screen.

 

The heart and soul of the apartment is in its detailing. A kitchen placed in an oval shell has a straight line from the front door to the view. The doorknobs are silver. The glass doors separating each room are frosted. Two bathrooms flank a green-glass tiled shower with a shower seat that could easily fit two. The entire home was conceived by the previous owner, a well-known interior designer. 

 

“This apartment is as much a work of art as it is a place to live,” says Corcoran broker Jan Kline, who shares the listing with her Upper East Side office-mate Bess Freedman. “It’s for that special buyer who understands style.”

 

She got that right. This is the perfect home for the powerful woman executive or young bachelor who wants the world at his feet. Either way, the views and night scenes of the bridge are both romantic and heavy industrial. At 1,400 square feet  and costing $1.325 million (maintenance fees are $2,600 per month), the home is like having your own ultramodern but not too hip hotel suite in a neighborhood that Marilyn Monroe used to call home.

 

Half the reason to see the home is the broker show. Talented and funny, Kline and Freedman will make you laugh while they sell the apartment. Although the home has been on the market since September, it’s seeing action now because of the price point, popular for couples and singles looking to buy.

 

“You get blown away the second you walk in,” says Freedman. “If the view doesn’t get you, the oval kitchen does.”

 

For more information, call the brokers at (212) 360-2286.

 

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