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Inside David Bowie’s $17m Manhattan apartment – The Irish Times
David Bowie in New York in 2002. Photograph: Theo Wargo/WireImage via Getty
It features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, three terraces and a recent past as the New York home of David Bowie – and it could have been yours for a mortgage repayment of just over €50,000 a month. Five years after the singer’s death, and less than a month after going on the market, Bowie’s apartment in the city has sold for $16.8 million, or about €14.2 million.
The 470sq m (5,090sq ft) residence is in the SoHo/Nolita area of Manhattan, at 285 Lafayette Street. The singer bought the property for $3.81 million in 1999 and lived there with his wife Iman until his death, in 2016. The sale, handled by Corcoran Group, was the first time the apartment had come on the market since then.
The listing describes it as a "grand yet intimate condominium residence with three perfectly situated terraces. The interior was beautifully crafted by one of Europe's most renowned architect/designers. Direct elevator access to the apartment's entrance gallery leads to a 56 x 22 foot great room with three exposures and a western terrace. Eleven foot ceiling heights, a fireplace, adjacent library (w/bath), and open kitchen add to the space's character and function.
“The main bedroom suite measures over 1,000 sq ft and features a fireplace, dressing room, oversized bath and terrace. There are an additional three bedrooms, three baths, and a powder room.
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David Bowie’s New York apartment: the living room. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the dining area and informal living space. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the library. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the kitchen.
Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the kitchen features island seating. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the main bedroom. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the main bathroom. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: the rooftop terrace. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
David Bowie’s New York apartment: part of the rooftop terrace. Photograph: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for Corcoran Group
“Originally built in 1886 and served as the Hawley & Hoops chocolate factory, 285 Lafayette Street was converted to a full-service condominium building in 1999.”
The real-estate agent estimates the mortgage repayments at about $60,350 (or about €51,150) a month, plus property taxes of $8,900 and maintenance and common charges of $7,802.
The listing describes the SoHo/Nolita area as an “architectural time capsule from the days when cast iron was all the rage”. In the 1960s artists began converting properties in the area into apartments and studios. “Today, high-end retail and restaurants occupy lower floors in what has become one of Manhattan’s most sought-after neighbourhoods. Nolita comprises the 16 blocks west of SoHo, over to the Bowery. The new hyper-specific portmanteau (for “North of Little Italy”) was bestowed in the 1990s to delineate its distinct, more-residential feel.”
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Inside David Bowie’s New York apartment – for $16.8 million
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
Life on Mars? No, it’s life in SoHo. After less than one month on the market, David Bowie’s former New York apartment is under contract to be sold for $16.8 million. Located in stylish Nolita, the nine-story building dates back to 1886, when it served as the Hawley & Hoops chocolate factory.
After being converted into an apartment building in the 1990s, reports* suggest David purchased the home in 1999 for $3.81 million. He then moved to the property full-time with his wife Iman in 2002.
As one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, David Bowie was awarded 10 platinum album certifications in the UK and a further five in the US. He was also listed as one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time – and the Greatest Rock Star Ever by Rolling Stone after his death in 2016.
It is perhaps unsurprising, therefore, that the legend owned one of Manhattan’s chicest properties.
Today, the music icon’s former home is a curated utopia of artworks, fashion books, and a rattan-filed kitchen – serving as a trove of interior design tips from the heart of SoHo.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
Hidden inside the 19th-century property, David Bowie’s apartment epitomizes Manhattan’s laid-back sophistication through its vibrantly patterned soft furnishings and colorful accessories.
We’re stealing neutral living room ideas from the monochromatic open-plan living space, including its retro-inspired light fixtures and statement orchid that acts as the focal point of the dining table. While we can’t quite recreate the apartment’s unrivaled view of the One World Trade Center, we can always dream.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
In contrast, the eclectic library space combines interior styles – channeling a traditional aesthetic through its book-filled wooden shelves and contemporary printed decor that graces the patterned floor.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
Meanwhile, the expansive kitchen area is equally as stylish, boasting a metallic breakfast bar and backsplash that create a juxtaposition against the 1970s style rattan wall and chocolate-hued wood details.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
There are bathroom ideas galore, too: the metallic features continue into the bathroom space with a freestanding silver tub and dark marble worktops that stand out against the neutral-toned tiles.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
This scheme continues into the bedroom, whose soft palette frames the colors of New York beyond the window.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
The library adjoins the apartment’s most notable asset – the terrace. The space boasts outdoor dining space and room for sun loungers, and of course, an unequaled view across lower Manhattan. This apartment takes our roof garden ideas to new heights.
(Image credit: MW Studio/Michael Weinstein for The Corcoran Group)
The apartment is under contract for $16.8 million with Stuart Moss of The Corcoran Group . * Property history via New York listing site Street Easy .
Megan is the News and Trends Editor at Homes & Gardens. She first joined Future Plc as a News Writer across their interiors titles, including Livingetc and Real Homes. As the News Editor, she often focuses on emerging microtrends, sleep and wellbeing stories, and celebrity-focused pieces.
Before joining Future, Megan worked as a News Explainer at The Telegraph, following her MA in International Journalism at the University of Leeds. During her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing, she gained writing experience in the US while studying in New York. Megan also focused on travel writing during her time living in Paris, where she produced content for a French travel site. She currently lives in London with her antique typewriter and an expansive collection of houseplants.
The house where David Bowie lived - DW - 01/15/2016
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Ella VolodinaJanuary 15, 2016 after David Bowe's sudden death
his grieving fans want to name a street in Berlin after the legendary musician.https://p.dw.com/p/1HcV3
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On January 15, David Bowie fans will honor his memory by gathering together at Berlin's Hansa-Tonstudio recording studio, where several of his legendary albums were made.
But this is not the only initiative with which Berliners want to express their love for the deceased musician.
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Bowie lived in the 1970s on Hauptstrasse (German for Main Street) in the West Berlin district of Schöneberg. "There are many main streets in Berlin, but not a single David-Bowie-Straße," says an online petition that appeared on January 12 on the Change.org platform. It has already been signed by more than 9,000 people. In Berlin, London and New York, Bowie is remembered by flowers, photographs and candles outside the houses where he lived. The musician died on January 10, just two days after he turned 69.years from cancer. Virtually no one knew about his illness.
According to the dpa news agency, Daniel Krüger, a spokesman for the district city council in charge of Hauptstrasse in Schöneberg, does not rule out the possibility of renaming the street. But in Berlin, he says, there is a law according to which a street can only be named after someone five years after their death.
It is also possible, the politician pointed out, to install a plaque on the house where David Bowie lived.
Petitioner Astrid Knauer said in the meantime that one of the signatories to her appeal suggested naming a bike path in honor of David Bowie, for example, leading through a park in the Gleisdryack area, if renaming the street is fraught with difficulties. During his stay in Berlin, Bowie writes, he cycled a lot, including through this park, on the way from his apartment in Schöneberg to the Hansa-Tonstudio recording studio near Potsdamer Platz.
Candles outside David Bowie's house in Berlin Photo: DW/R.KrauseSeven rooms on Hauptstrasse
David Bowie has lived in Berlin since 1976. At that time, the remnants of the extra-parliamentary opposition rallied on the streets of the city and the establishment was terrorized by activists of the "second generation" of the radical left "Red Army Faction".
The storm winds of the revolution also reached the owner of a residential building at number 155 on Hauptstrasse - a commune was formed in one of her apartments.
The seven-room apartment of Frau Rosa Morath, as the German newspaper Tagesspiegel writes in its report, was rented out to a seemingly respectable tenant, a lawyer. But he converted the apartment into a bohemian salon, painted the walls black and covered the windows with black curtains. Visitors to the salon often and protesters from the streets.
One fine day, the patience of the owner of the property burst, she called the lawyer out of his lair and read morality to him for so long, until he eventually moved out of the apartment, leaving behind black walls. And while the hostess was thinking about where to get money for whitewashing, now there was a knock on her door, and the guest reported that she was ready to rent an apartment for a British client. On one condition, though. The hostess must allow him to carry out major repairs in all seven rooms - to his taste, but also at his expense. Frau Morath, of course, did not think long. In the fall, a new tenant moved into the apartment.
David Bowie, already a musical celebrity in 1976, moved into the house at 155 Hauptstrasse not alone, but in company with Iggy Pop. He, however, later moved to a separate apartment in the same building, allegedly due to the fact that too often he took food from the refrigerator that belonged to Bowie. In his new apartment, again, according to legend, the punk rocker liked to sit with his guitar on the windowsill of an open window overlooking the courtyard.
David Bowie and Iggy Pop. March 1977 Photo: Getty Images/Evening Standard Bowie's neighbors in this quintessentially high-ceilinged, dreary-façade Berlin high-rise building were the most ordinary people, from Turkish expatriates to owners of an auto parts store with a window to the street. “Small and thin with a narrow face,” recalls one of the daughters of the owner of the house where Bowie lived, Barbara Janzen, in an interview with Tagesspiegel. At the time of meeting the musician she was 18 years old.
However, as she recalls, he did not pay much attention to her. Bowie's main contact at 155 was Barbara's adoptive father, Wolf-Dieter Trewer, a seven-language former sailor. Trever fixed Bowie's car and then got him a two-door Mercedes. The musician regularly presents his Berlin friend with autographed records as a token of gratitude.
David Bow lived in Berlin until 1978. During this time he released what is known as the "Berlin Trilogy" series of albums "Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger". On the posthumously released new album in early March, the first single "Where Are We Now?" reminds of an extremely productive stage in the creative career of the legendary musician.
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I am an instant star.
Just add water and mix a little.
Hardly anyone will remember me in a thousand years.
I can't even imagine how many thousands of times and how many thousands of people came up to me and said: "Hey, let's dance" (Let's dance, "Let's dance" - one of Bowie's most famous singles. - Rules of life). God, I hate dancing. It's so stupid.
Here in New York , I get a lot of shouting: Hey Bowie! It's okay, it suits me. Because in London everyone screams "Dave", and for that I want to break their damn heads. My name is David and I hate being called Dave. By the way, I think that everyone is well aware of this.
I never wanted to become an American to the end. Therefore, everything that I buy and wear is made in Europe.
I love New York and can't imagine living anywhere else.
It's probably surprising that I became a New Yorker, because I never even thought about it.
I didn't know Charlie Chaplin. But when I lived in Switzerland, he was my neighbor - or rather, his body. He was buried in the Anglican churchyard, down the street from my house. And then some assholes stole his coffin (in 1978, the coffin with Chaplin's body was dug up and stolen. - Rules of life) and began to demand money from his family. It was terrible, especially since I knew his family - they were good people.
No, I didn't write Golden Years (Bowie's song created in 1975 year. - Rules of life) for Elvis. But Elvis heard my demo because we were both on RCA and Colonel Tom Parker (Elvis' manager) thought I should write some songs for Presley. There was talk that I should be introduced to Elvis and that we should work together, but it all ended in nothing. But I would be happy to work with him. By the way, once he sent me a note: "I wish you a good tour and all the best.
" I still keep it - after all, Elvis did not scatter notes.
I once asked Lennon what he thought of what I was doing. It's fine, he said, but it's just rock 'n' roll with a little lipstick on top.
I've come up with a new image of myself so often that today it seems to me that I was originally a plump Korean.
I am often offered roles in bad films. And, basically, these are some kind of possessed faggots, transvestites or Martians.
Difficult life in harmony with chaos.
I have no sense of humor - that's the biggest misconception about my person. I must have looked really serious at one time. But this is only because I was very shy at the time. Actually, that's why at one time I jumped on drugs so much. When you're on cocaine, you talk and smile for three.
I think it was me and Dennis Hopper , the ones who took Iggy Pop drugs straight to the hospital.
I think he was taken to the psychiatric ward at 1975th, and when we got there, shit was literally falling out of our pockets. Actually, they don't let you into hospitals with drugs, but we were crazy, and therefore we managed to smuggle everything we had. I don't even remember us experiencing anything like fear. After all, our friend was there, in the hospital, and we had to bring him at least something, because he hadn’t had anything for a very long time.
I was drug free until 1974. Not so little, right? And the most interesting thing is that all the things that I have ever done or tried to do interested me long before I got into cocaine. So maybe the drugs didn't change my life in any way. Although they helped me to penetrate into the dark corners of consciousness.
Now I'm more balanced, that's for sure. But to achieve this, I ate a million pills.
In my youth I was terrible.
I remember very well my first love: we went to school together, and it was the first girl in the class who had boobs.
Sex became something very important to me at the age of 14. I didn't care how and with whom it happened. For me, only sexual experience was important. So when I brought a boy home after school and fucked him on my bed, it just added to my experience. And then I thought: well, if I ever go to prison, I think I know how not to get bored there.
It is very difficult to be a destroyer of morality in a world where there is no morality left.
Little did I know real rebels ready to die for their beliefs. Even James Dean didn't want to die.
You should always be wary of those who come under the spotlight by accident, having no talent. Such people have a terrifying ability to communicate with the stars, wrapping them in their arms and kissing them.
But these people are only able to reflect light and are not able to radiate it.
You can't win or lose as long as you don't race.
I think , I am able to get the best out of talented people that they are capable of.
The long list of tips that I love to give to all aspiring musicians usually ends like this: "If it itches, try to see a doctor as soon as possible."
It amazes me that people take everything I say seriously. Even I don't take it seriously.
I write about the suffering of - my own and others. The rest doesn't interest me much.
I was one of the first who learned about Chernobyl - outside of Russia, of course. We were then recording the album in Switzerland. It was a pleasant April evening, and everyone was dumped on the lawn in front of the studio.
We had the Alps and a lake in front of us, and then our sound engineer, who stayed in the studio and listened to the radio, shouted: “Some kind of f*** is going on in Russia!” It turned out that he caught some Swiss radio station, and they, in turn, caught some kind of Norwegian wave. The Norwegians tried to shout to someone. They said that huge clouds were moving from Russia, and these were not just rain clouds. Actually, this was the first news about Chernobyl. I called a journalist friend in London, but he had not heard of anything like that - Chernobyl hit the main news only a few hours later. I remember that it was a very strange feeling: to realize that you are one of the few who know about the threat hanging over the planet.
Very few can say: I love humanity. I am not one of them.
I don't believe in demons. I do not believe in sinister otherworldly forces. I do not believe that there is something outside of man that is capable of generating evil.
I have always tried to remind eternity that even it can come to an end someday.
As you grow older, you realize that almost all platitudes, clichés and conventional wisdom are true. Time really goes faster with each passing year. Life is really very short - as it was warned from the very beginning. And it seems that there really is a god. Because if all the other statements are true, why shouldn't I believe this?
I am not exactly an atheist and this worries me.
It’s a pity g Lord – after all, he has absolutely no one to learn from.
A man of the 21st century is a pagan: there is no inner light in him, he destroys a lot and creates little, and, most importantly, he does not feel the presence of God in his life.
I hate people who don't know what to do with their free time.
I consider myself is a fully happy person. Unlike many, I took advantage of everything that was allowed to me.
You probably think that being a rock idol married to a supermodel (Bowie is married to Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, a model of Somali origin. - Rules of life) is the best thing that can happen in this life? Basically, that's how it is.
I'm not obsessed with real estate.
I love the box. Boxing is a real sport. And pumping iron in the gym is fucking boring.
I don't know yet what I will do next year. But whatever it is, I won't be bored.
I'm not sure that in a few years I will be working with any record label. I am not sure that the music distribution system itself will remain in the near future the way it is today.
