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Jerry Seinfeld Sells 27-Acre Colorado Property for $14 Million
By V.L. HENDRICKSON
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Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld have sold their mountain retreat, a 12,260-square-foot home on nearly 27 acres in Telluride, Colorado, for $14 million.
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Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld have sold their nearly 27-acre Colorado mountain retreat for $14 million.
Nestled between Rocky Mountain peaks in Telluride, Colorado, the property has views of the Wilson range and a 12,260-square-foot main home designed to look like a series of ranch buildings, according to the listing with Bill Fandel of Compass.
The comedian, 67, and the cookbook author, 50, listed the property in March for $14. 95 million, The Wall Street Journal reported at the time. It sold in late January, according to property records that were just made public.
“Recognizing the strong demand for properties, they felt this was a good time [to sell],” Mr. Fandel told The Wall Street Journal. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this article.
Indeed, the desire for space and access to nature created by the Covid-19 pandemic has brought an influx of buyers to ski towns and other vacation destinations. Single-family home sales in Telluride rose 50% annually in the fourth quarter of 2021, while prices were up 39% from $3.9 million in 2020 to $5.4 million in 2021, according to a report from LIV Sotheby’s International Realty.
The couple, avid skiers, purchased the 11-bedroom, 13-bathroom vacation home in 2007 for $7.55 million, public records show. The property is minutes from Telluride Ski Resort, one the country’s top-rated skiing destinations.
The Seinfelds had owned the property since 2017.
Getty Images “After the Seinfelds purchased the property, they did a remodel and re-imagined the whole place,” Mr. Fandel told The Wall Street Journal.
Features of the home include a great room with a stone fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows framing mountain views, an eat-in kitchen, a den lined with bookshelves and a primary bedroom suite with views of the landscape and two bathrooms, listing photos show. There’s also a gym, a yoga studio and a four-car garage.
Outside, there’s a patio and dining area, also with mountain views, and the property boasts a creek and a private trail system through aspen and spruce trees.
Most recently, the “Seinfeld” star released a comedy special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill,” and filmed conversations with his peers in his long-running “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” series.
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Seinfeld is the author of five cookbooks and is the founder of the GOOD+ Foundation, which provides essential items for families in need throughout New York City.
Representatives for the couple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Realtor.com first reported the deal.
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Jerry Seinfeld's house in Telluride is a luxury ski getaway
Jerry Seinfeld has listed his expensive Telluride estate for $14.95 million. The comedian and his wife Jessica Seinfeld bought the ski retreat in 2007 for $7.55 million, and once listed it back in 2011 before taking it off the market.
The Colorado home is nestled upon 26 acres within the upscale private enclave of Raspberry Patch.
Designed as an evolving series of Western ranch structures by renowned Aspen-based architectural firm Lipkin-Warner, the home was elegantly re-imagined and expanded over the last decade, creating a property that channels timeless sophistication.
See: World's best homes – explore the most spectacular houses across the globe
(Image credit: Joshua Johnson/Compass)
The decor oozes a modern farmhouse aesthetic with an earthy and organic blend of wood and stone finishes. The back-to-nature feeling is further perpetuated in the vaulted double-height Great Room with floor-to-ceiling windows offering uninterrupted views of the outdoors and Wilson Range mountains beyond.
(Image credit: Joshua Johnson/Compass)
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(Image credit: Joshua Johnson/Compass)
The modern kitchen boasts wooden beams, top-line appliances, and flushed pendant lights for a cosy yet contemporary feel.
(Image credit: Joshua Johnson/Compass)
See: Kitchen ideas – decor and decorating ideas for all kitchens
The light-filled bedrooms also boast breathtaking views of the the bucolic surroundings and are finished to a high yet cosy standard.
See: Bedroom ideas – designs and inspiration for beautiful bedrooms
(Image credit: Joshua Johnson/Compass)
There's also an impressive wood-panelled library, gym, yoga studio and four-car garage.
Outside, there's 27 acres of space and manicured grounds that lead to a well-maintained trail system winding its way through the towering Aspen and spruce trees down to a flowing creek.
The home is close to the Telluride Ski Resort, making it the perfect spot for family skiing vacations.
Telluride is known to be popular with celebrities, and Tom Cruise also owns a vast 320-acre resort in the area.
Jerry Seinfeld's Telluride home is listed with Bill Fandel at Compass .
See: Tom Cruise's Colorado ranch is on the market – take a look inside his luxurious mountain sanctuary
Jerry, whose hit show Seinfeld ran from 1989 to 1998 making him a global superstar, also owns a number of homes in the US, including a beautiful mansion in the Hamptons, bought from Billy Joel for $32 million in 2000.
6 world celebrities who appreciated the aura of a wooden house | Private house
We have always wondered which of the world's influential celebrities prefer the wooden house for permanent residence?
And what's more, we wanted to understand what a wooden house might look like if the budget for its construction is actually not limited ? Agree, the stars have no problem choosing the best wood and the best construction team.
Today we share with you the results of our research.
6 world celebrities who appreciated the wooden house:
1. Elizabeth II - British queen.
Although there is information on the Internet that Elizabeth II was the owner of a wooden house, it must be admitted that none of her official residences (Buckingham Palace in London, Windsor Castle in Berkshire, Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh and Hillsborough Castle in North Ireland) was not built of logs.
2. Bill Gates is an entrepreneur and public figure, one of the founders of Microsoft.
The wooden house of the programmer who gave the world Windows is built on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington, and has an area of about 6.1 thousand square meters, and the area of the entire site is just over 2 hectares.
The house, which received the status of " smartest mansion on the planet " by the people, is estimated at 130 million dollars. The house has many high-tech features and innovative design elements: an underwater music system in the 18-meter pool, automation of lighting and temperature control (for example, each tenant is given a chip that allows him to adjust the temperature in the room where he is comfortable), a trampoline room, sauna, advanced eco-technologies - solar panels, rainwater collection system, video cameras everywhere.
Gates' house is surrounded by trees, including a 40-year-old maple tree, sacred to a businessman, which is computer monitored and the need for watering is automatically adjusted.
Most of the wood materials are made from various rare species of wood from all over the world, imported especially for this house.
3. Oprah Winfrey - TV presenter, actress, producer, public figure.
Oprah's 800 square meter wooden house in Telluride, Colorado is valued at $14 million.
It is noted that the wood used was recycled, restored (we, in Russia, it is also called "reclaimed") wood, which is distinguished by its durability and environmental friendliness and noble appearance.
4. Tom Cruise is an actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Tom Cruise's wooden house located in Telluride, Colorado is built of cedar and costs $40 million. It was for this amount that it was sold, which, according to the world's largest auction house Sotheby's, is a record for Telluride.
Cruz's 1,000-square-meter house has plenty of natural light, a large stone fireplace and a spacious outdoor terrace.
5. Ralph Lauren is a fashion designer, designer and entrepreneur.
The fashion designer and his wife, Ricky, have created a rustic haven at their spacious ranch home in Colorado.
"Colorado was an escape for us. It was about a life that would be different, more free, in which there would be nature, trees, animals and a big sky," the couple share their impressions of living outside the bustle of the city.
6. Jerry Seinfeld is an actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter.
This Telluride, Colorado home was built in the early 1990s and features a rustic yet modern design with large windows that offer breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and woodland.
House area - 1300 sq. meters. The high ceilings and exposed wooden beams look great.
Of course, there are other world stars who lived or live in wooden log houses, but, alas, they are in no hurry to disclose this publicly. If you have relevant information - share in the comments!
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the history of Seinfeld, the best sitcom in the world
On July 5, 1989, NBC aired the first episode of Seinfeld, the legendary sitcom that ran for nine years and greatly influenced American television, comedy and beyond.
To cheer himself up while filming Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg watched it. Anna Zakrevskaya talks in detail about the inimitable universe of the show, where nothing changes and nothing happens.
What it is
Seinfeld was a wildly popular TV series that ran on NBC from July 5, 1989 to May 14, 1998. Little known in Russia, but one of the most important and beloved in the history of American television.
Seinfeld is also the name of the main character, Jerry Seinfeld, a charming stand-up comedian who lives in New York and occasionally performs on stage, but spends most of his time with friends. The eternal loser and best friend of George, the troubled ex-girlfriend Elayne and the colorful neighbor Kramer.
Finally, Seinfeld is the name of actor and stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who plays stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld.
Once upon a time, Jerry and his co-creator Larry David (today he is busy with Curb Your Enthusiasm) had the audacity to come up with a sitcom about Jerry's life.
That is, of course, not literally, but let it be for a little while, for fun, we will think so. David also became the prototype of the neurotic George Costanza (Jason Alexander). It is generally accepted that this series is "about nothing". Literally.
A complex construction is designed to increase the degree of comicality, at the same time, this complexity is a carrier that sets the rules of the game.
Here, of course, furious cunning comes through: the series turned out to be certainly not “about anything”, perhaps it is “about nothing special”. “Don’t you hate it when they say on TV “to be continued?” Jerry asks the audience. “If I wanted a long boring story with no meaning... I have a life for that.” Initially, the idea of the authors was to show how a stand-up comedian comes up with sketches. Something more happened. Something incredibly absurd, but also strangely vital.
Seinfeld has become the birthplace of all modern television sitcoms. Its closest relatives are Friends (the entourage of cozy New York in the early 90s), and among modern shows you can find many continuers of the tradition of filming “about nothing”: for example, stand-up comedian Louis C.K.’s show Lucky Louis ( 2006) and "Louis" (2010-2015).
The score is well known to us: four absurd main characters who spend all their time together, an invariable set of locations that are pleasing to the eye, witty dialogues filmed from one point, laughter behind the scenes.
We feel the subtlety of the cardboard scenery, we know that this “apartment” has only three walls, and the laughter of the audience is fake ... Only in Seinfeld something sparkling, alive glistens between the cardboard boxes. For example, his heroes.
Who are these people
Jerry is the first card of the tarot deck, The Fool and the Eternal Child, a fan of comics. Good-natured and benevolent, direct and irresponsible. He will always prefer toys over girls (Season 9, Episode 6). An angel and a madman, he (both in life and in the series) is a comedian, and this is a special profession, not an easy one. It is believed that comedians are complex, gloomy, depressive people. Jerry doesn't seem like that at all. However, there are enough troubles.
Because he always has George. George is a local Woody Allen, all the neuroses of the world: balding, not particularly attractive, always dissatisfied with everything, at first unemployed and living with his parents, with whom, of course, he has a terrible relationship.
He has the lowest self-esteem in the world, and he knows it better than anyone. In George it is impossible not to recognize yourself in at least something. If you look closely, Leonard from The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) replicates his petty antics, although his real heir may be the sociopathic Sheldon Cooper. The authors will give George a job, and even a bride (for a short time), but our hero has the gift of turning everything inside out: the work will turn into a parody, and the bride (spoiler!) will die ridiculously. George breathes a sigh of relief.
Elayne Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a walking disaster that reminds me of Diane Keaton from the Woodiallen period. She wants simple pleasures from life (admiring the ass of John F. Kennedy - Jr. in the gym), and "The English Patient" (1996) will always prefer "Weekend at Bernie's 2" (1993). Only she has the courage to pull off George's wig when he decides to experiment, or dance like Phoebe in her own special - extremely eccentric - manner.
Elayne is a loner who, for some reason, always hangs out with three strange men: it seems that only she can somehow pacify them. Perhaps this environment describes it exhaustively. And, of course, the iconic phrase: “I'm not a lesbian! I hate men, but I'm not a lesbian!
Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) - trickster, eternal holiday, man of mystery. We do not know anything about his real life, we only observe some fragments of insanity and attempts to fit into normality. We even learn the name (Cosmo) somewhere in the middle of the series. A person who always succeeds (or not?). He is the author of Amazing Tales from the Sea and the initiator of an endless number of ridiculous start-ups. The one Woody Allen offered the whole line in the movie: "These pretzels make me so thirsty." The lanky and awkward king of slapstick: tousled hair, Hawaiian shirts (with a crab pattern!), oversized fur coat. At first, it seems like a wild phenomenon even for the conventional world of a sitcom, but in the end it turns out to be perhaps the most mesmerizing element of it.
Kramer lives in a fantasy world: always telling the truth, always listening, always ready to help, even when not asked (always with mixed results). By the way, of the four main characters, he is the only one who did not have an internal monologue. “His whole life is a dream camp,” George concluded. “People have to pay $2,000 to live like him for a week. Do nothing, take money from somewhere, eat neighbors and have sex without dates. This is the dream camp.
Minor characters and the vague charm of the foursome
Postman Newman (Wayne Knight) also lives next door. The dark side of this universe, pure Seinfeld evil. Need to get rid of a harmless dog that's keeping Elayne awake? Newman is the one you need. Irreconcilable and sworn, like Superman, Jerry's enemy. The reasons for the enmity are not disclosed: it seems that they are offended by the very existence of each other. This pure, uncomplicated hatred is perfectly conveyed by one greeting.
And then a string of crazy bosses, crazy childhood friends, crazy colleagues, intolerable parents enter the scene.
Everything is as it should be.
The main characters are completely self-sufficient, absolutely complete images. They don't change. No way. At all. They don't learn anything. They just are. At the same time, each of them, including Elayne, tries to date people, but always ends the relationship for such ridiculous reasons that Chandler Bing himself would marvel. “Hands too big”, “eating green peas one pea at a time” are jerryn’s reasons for breaking up. And George, for example, broke up with a woman because she beat him at chess. When his future bride Susan left him, he began to suffer exaggeratedly - of course, solely for the sake of suffering itself:
- Will I be able to meet someone better than her? There's no one better than her, Jerry.
— When you met her, you said that you couldn't stand her!
George, Jerry, Elayne, and Kramer often discuss remarkably trifling questions: the series begins and ends with an identical discussion of buttons (maybe higher, maybe lower?).
They are always battling some completely ridiculous but eerily familiar problems. Jerry returns to the store to prove to the clerk that he was telling the truth by promising to "come back". Elayne doesn't know how to correct a colleague who calls her Susie. George does not understand how to tell his superiors that he listened to important work assignments issued to him. Minor inconveniences, stupid annoyances, absurd crises sucked from the finger - the barely perceptible rumble of everyday life comes to the fore in Seinfeld. Watching this struggle helps to relieve some of the existential tension, to reconcile with the absurdity of reality. No wonder Steven Spielberg during the hardest filming of "Schindler's List" (1993) constantly watched Seinfeld to somehow cheer himself up.
Individuality (and the secret of longevity) show
An important characteristic of the series is that it is a comedy of the absurd. The absurdity here is so vital and painfully gloomy, but at the same time there is a feeling that we are allowed to spy on a wonderful and toy world.
“We are children, not men,” George and Jerry realize at some point in sync.
— And then you asked yourself, "Isn't there something else in life?" wise Kramer clarifies.
— Yes, they asked.
— Let me tell you something. There is nothing more.
The apotheosis of local gloom is the death of George's fiancée, who poisoned herself while sealing a ton of wedding invitations. The envelopes were cheap and poisonous (ironically George chose them). It’s not even the fact itself that is scary and funny, but George’s reaction - awkwardness and a desire to get out of the situation as soon as possible.
George reacts to Susag's death The show's characteristic mixture of absurdity, wit and hopelessness is concentrated in the brilliant third episode of the ninth season, "Calm, Come.
" Jerry suddenly wakes up "real feelings", which looks terribly ridiculous, comical and inappropriate. He awkwardly proposes to Elayne. She is chewing on a banana. In the background, a murmuring George is trying to get a cart loaded with computers into the apartment. Thank God, Jerry quickly recovers.
Ultimately, we don't need the characters to "understand", "understand", "correct" something, or to be overtaken by retribution (which they tried to portray in the ambiguous ending). It's not about whether they succeed by the end (for example, George might have a normal job and personal life, Jerry and Elayne - together or alone - would find the one / only). It is much more important for the heroes not to violate the reserved way of life, and for the authors not to lose the rhythm, to preserve the melody and internal logic. In this, the creators took a huge risk, which eventually paid off.
Ten years for any series can be fatal. "Friends" by this time had already been swallowed up by depression: Ross became more and more unbearable, Rachel more and more capricious.
Not like Seinfeld. As if emphasizing its own uniqueness, the ninth (final) season turned out to be almost the best. In fact, he's just as good as everyone else. Nothing should change in a world that seems to be reborn every day, every episode (and gets high from it).
At some point, the sitcom's toy and conventionality overflows - from the first episodes, actually, but the viewer needs a little time to get used to - and then the "fake" off-screen cackle turns into a laughter of complicity, a live presence. The surrounding objective environment also does not allow this world to disintegrate, for which the warmth of recognition is so important. The soft gray walls of Jerry's living room, the cozy ash blue couch, the outline of a bright green bicycle somewhere in the background, a small Superman figurine on the board game shelf, a collection of corn flakes in fancy packages in the kitchen.
The apparent lightness of being: jokes, songs and falls
Jerry's stage sketches, which carefully frame almost every episode, are incredibly simple and light, behind which hides colossal precision.
Only a comedy of observations - no soulful exhibitionism. This is the rigor of a chess game: on once given cells, a ballet seems to be unfolding, which is repeated in the dramaturgy of many episodes.
By the way, the melody that accompanies the series was specially written "under the voice" of Jerry, around whom the composer Jonathan Wolf built the rest of the score. For each episode, he reworked the piece of music to exactly match the required rhythm.
Seinfeld's stand-up performance inAny fan of the show also knows that Kramer's entrances to Jerry's apartment are an art in their own right: he rushes in, jumps in, rides in on a bicycle, enters dancing, winking, just falling. In total, there were more than 380 such "outputs". the success of Seinfeld.
Guests and references
The series has a sprinkling of celebrities, present and future. Bryan Cranston and Bob Odenkirk from Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Courteney Cox - a month before Monica Geller on Friends.
Jon Favreau, James Spader, voice of Tyrion Lannister (i.e. Peter Dinklage), Marisa Tomei as herself (in love with George, I must add). And Twin Peaks' Grace Zabriskie (Sarah Palmer) and Warren Frost (Doc Hayward) play the oddly funny pair of poor Susan's parents.
Seinfeld is also full of funny references and gentle parodies of all the classics: Sunset Boulevard, Abbott and Costello (season eight, episode five), Basic Instinct (season eight, episode five), “ Platoon (season eight, episode six), Apocalypse Now (season eight, episode eight), The Godfather, Three Days of the Condor (season nine, episode five).
Bonus Track: Highlights
Pilot
As expected, The Seinfeld Chronicles doesn't have much in common with what it ended up being. The apartment is different, the cafe is also different. Jerry awkwardly explains to his parents that he and Elayne are "just friends", she is "not the same". Subsequently, he prudently refrains from mentioning "those" and "the only ones.
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Probably the first episode to have a cult following:
"Chinese Restaurant" (season 2, episode 11).
Very funny episodes:
"Limousine" (third season, episode 19),
"Airport" (fourth season, episode 12), 1st episode),
Fusilli Jerry (season 6, episode 21),
Loaf of Bread (season 7, episode 11),
Fried Chicken (season 8, episode 8),
"Safe" (ninth season, episode 14).
And so on.
The most unusual episode:
"Betrayal" (season 9, episode 8) - an episode in the spirit of Harold Pinter's play of the same name played backwards.
The most daring episodes:
"Competition" (fourth season, 11th episode). A revolutionary episode about masturbation, in which the word "masturbation" is never used.
"Exposure" (fourth season, episode 17). “We are not gay! It's not like we're anti-gay!"
"Mango" (fifth season, first episode).
Elayne admits to Jerry that she never had an orgasm when they met and slept together. Jerry begs for another chance. Elayne, oddly enough, agrees.
"Temperance" (eighth season, ninth episode). Heroes talks about how the lack of sex affects men and women.
Afterword
For the creation of the tenth season, Seinfeld was offered some fabulous money, but he refused, citing the fact that it was rather unusual to stop at nine. In general, the number "9" in numerology means "completion".
Although the final episode, inspired by Albert Camus' novel "The Outsider", caused a mixed reaction, it can still be considered a logical finale - a kind of joke for the sake of a joke.
A real comedian knows that a joke is above all. The finale proudly demonstrated that the heroes of Seinfeld would rather spend the rest of their lives in prison than settle for real problems, real emotions, some deep philosophical reflections or, God forbid, get the opportunity to become the voice of a generation, even ironic.
