1. Mickey Drexler unloads another NYC gem.

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Photo via Core NYC

Just last month, we reported that Mickey Drexler was selling his stylish TriBeCa residence. Now, the J. Crew CEO is unloading another stunner in the same neighborhood. The twenty-four-foot-wide, 9,000- square-foot Renaissance-style loft is located in a late-nineteenth century building designed by Hugh Getty for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale coffee and tea merchant. The building was used as a roasting plant before it went residential.

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Photo via Core NYC

Drexler enlisted the French architect Thierry Despont to transform the space into a single-family residence. The five-bedroom home is filled with stunning fixtures, unique materials and finishes, and custom design touches that incorporate elements of the structure’s industrial past. The property boasts a grand entrance foyer with glass block inspired by the Modernist architect Pierre Chareau's seminal Maison de Verre in Paris, a 1,500-square-foot living room with soaring ceilings, a rooftop terrace, a gym, a sauna, and a commercial-sized elevator.

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For the furnishings, Despont opted for rich textures, bold colors, and lustrous finishes, creating a sleek and sophisticated ambiance throughout the home. In the living room, sumptuously upholstered furniture mingles with striking mid century lighting and sculptural decorative objects, while the black-and-yellow dining room boasts graphic patterns and geometric forms, including a commanding Stilnovo chandelier. This one-of-a-kind loft is listed for $29.9 million. Click here to view the full listing.

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Clockwise from top left: Pair of elegant Gio Ponti style armchairs, circa 1950. Offered by Compendio Gallery; Tufted velvet bench or coffee table. Offered by Las Venus by Kenneth Clark; Sputnik chandelier, Italy, 1950s. Offered by Bernd Goeckler Antiques; Harry Bertoia Gong Pendant, 1960. Offered by Leah Gordon.   

2. This 19th century cottage blends the best of the past and the present.

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Photo via Kurfiss/Sotheby’s International Realty

This truly singular cottage, which appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, is located on 4.64 acres in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. The four-bedroom home, known as Fernside Cottage, was built in 1835 as a mill worker’s house and remained so until 1910, when the property was purchased by Dr. DeWitt Ludlum, a respected psychologist who founded the Gladwyne Colony sanitorium. Ludlum converted the structure into a single home for himself, where he lived until 1964, when John Dorrance acquired the property.

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Photo via Kurfiss/Sotheby’s International Realty

In 1992, Fernside Cottage’s current owners bought the home and oversaw a number of comprehensive renovations. Working closely with Daniel Evan White, a celebrated architect from Vancouver, they blended the residence’s exquisite historic elements with contemporary features, such as walls of glass, spectacular skylights, floors made of masonry paving matrix, and exposed concrete columns.

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Photo via Kurfiss/Sotheby’s International Realty

Voracious collectors, the owners filled the home with spectacular objects—in the living room, dozens of weathervanes line the walls, the main entry features shelf after shelf of rainbow spatterware, and the guest bedroom features a full-length display dedicated to fire fighting toys. Mirroring the home’s mix of traditional and contemporary touches, the owners punctuated their myriad folk art and Americana collections with modern furniture, including Tiffany lamps, a curly maple dining table made by a local craftsman, and pieces by Gustav Stickley, Rodolfi Dordoni, and other luminaries. Fernside Cottage carries a $4.3 million price tag. Click here to view the full listing.

 

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 Clockwise from top left: Turned armchair, circa 1760, Delaware River Valley. Offered by Kelly Kinzle Antiques; “Nelson,” an exceptional and large running horse weathervane, circa 1892. Offered by Austin T. Miller American Antiques, Inc.; A very fine Chippendale pembroke table with square-shaped cornered top. Offered by Peter H. Eaton Antiques; Portrait of a gentleman seated in a painted chair holding a book by Ammi Phillips; Offered by Jeffrey Tillou Antiques.