Tasteful friends, PRINCESS Lee Radziwill's New York co-op for sale

Seems like a steal for some wealthy family. Building and location are hard to beat.

Nice floor plan. No garage. Subway not convenient being several blocks walk away.. "Discrete" air conditioners, so it must get pretty warm in late summer.

Great place for an elderly shut-in I suppose.

Two pictures of the interior, really?

I'll need to see far more than this.

its known as one of the great sleeper buildings pre war on the UES. Her unit is a little smaller than some on lower floors.

R3 Scroll down through her earlier homes to see more photos of her last apartment.

I like pink!

To go at that price, there must be something wrong with it. And that staff bedroom is tiny.

[quote] Not Joey Luft

Obviously not. He likes blue.

She should have stayed on Fifth Ave. But, as was so often the case, it just wasn't in the cards for her.

[quote] And that staff bedroom is tiny.

Yeah, it's only 6'11" wide. It is 12'8" long, though.

The elevator opens right into the apartment ("private vestibule").

It’s a great apartment.

Those pix are wonderful, R5.

Thank you for posting.

I'm surprised it's got a galley kitchen. Don't most people these days want a spacious, open plan kitchen with center island?

R13 , that apartment was built long ago, before the open concept kitchen trend. In those days (if you were of that class), you had servant(s) hidden away, cooking your dinner. That floor plan shows that there is a small "servant's room."

Too much traffic on East 72nd. The noise would be annoying.

Love it. Love everything about it. Perfect elegant layout and it all makes sense. Generous but not monster sized rooms, and NO OPEN FLOORPLAN/Great room nonsense! The price is very fair too. I'm not crazy about the UES, but this is an excellent location and price.

Town & Country has photos from her apartment. It looks like they are from a magazine shoot and not from the real estate agent. The bedroom and living room looks pretty much the same as in the photos above.

I don't care much for the vivid patterns that cover the walls and the furniture. It looks suffocating and the apartment has too small rooms and too low ceiling for it to work. I very much prefer her Parisian apartment that was light and airy.

I doubt that whoever buys this place will worry much about how far they are from the subway, R2. That's the staff's problem.

Caftan friendly too!

Any more photos found?

Christies catalogue of Lee's possessions. Nothing special or remotely valuable or interesting. Bitch had to sell her baubles years ago when she was broke. Underwhelming flotsam really.

I love R2's bitchy line: Great place for an elderly shut-in I suppose.

Surprised the auction is so small and you’re right, there’s nothing really there for sale.

It is a nice building - but don’t think I would want to be on such a busy street. The UES is so NY rich1960s-70s. But some amazing architecture. I’ve always liked it - but it does seem sterile and almost suburban in some parts.

I read in the AD article in 1975 regarding her 5th ave co op that she had a francis bacon painting. I would wager that got sold off long ago to keep her afloat. Hope she got a lot of money for it.

Was this the pad Jackie bought for her, or the previous on Fifth Ave?

Her stuff is up for auction today, including a biography on Jackie On Assistance with Lee's notes written in the margins of the pages that mention her.

Lexington? Oh, dear.

From R27's link:

[quote] “The funniest thing is the book is saying how Jackie would scribble comments in the margins of newspaper articles about herself, and Lee writes [in the margin], ‘Totally false.’ But she is doing it!”

[quote]I'm surprised it's got a galley kitchen.

Unless one is a caterer, I've never understood the need for a large kitchen. You put the entree in the oven, soup is simmering on the stove top, you make a salad on the counter while everything's cooking ... it's not like you're feeding tons of people, most of the time.

Even if you're baking, how much room do you actually need to roll out dough?

That's a crazy maintenance. The building probably has financial problems.

Beautiful but odd-looking sisters.

The kitchen is cramped, but right next to it is the staff room. Remove one wall, redo the kitchen, perfect.

But it's a bearing wall, Miss Crawford - -

The matching wallpaper and furniture is obnoxious.

People of Lee Radziwill's class had no need for a large kitchen, they rarely ever went in the kitchen. That was for staff.

Ick to the wallpaper, everywhere.

Lee fancied herself to be a decorator - -

The price probably reflects a need for updating and the maintenance probably is more representative of what would be justified for an updated unit. I'll bet the kitchen and baths are out of date and there might be some flooring or plaster that has seen better days. And that blinding wallpaper--my God that would distract anyone from the possibilities of this place.

All these complaints about the kitchen. As if she ate...

Some of her collection is being auctioned at Christie's.

Looks like your gran's place.

"All these complaints about the kitchen. As if she ate..."

Meanwhile the vodka closet was a temperature controlled walk-in with a lovely 18th century Viennese tasting table and a quartet of wing chairs upholstered in a Schumacher velvet.

Ick to the wallpaper, everywhere.

It's fabric, not wallpaper. And most of you don't understand the lifestyle, class, and generation Radziwill came from, and her history, when you judge her design aesthetic.

We don't need no stinkin' [italic]facts!