A PALATIAL PARK AVENUE DUPLEX

Architectural Grandeur Meets Modern Luxury

By AP Connolly

A palatial pre-war masterpiece, this grand duplex residence boasts perfectly scaled rooms for spectacular entertainment and everyday living. Drenched in sunlight, each floor of the sprawling home has ninety feet of frontage on 760 Park Avenue and nearly every room has an open, external view.

THE RESIDENCE
Welcome to residence 7/8 where you will find nine bedrooms, including a primary suite with a large, windowed dressing room and separate sitting room, seven full window baths, two powder rooms, and three wood-burned fireplaces. There is a beautiful enfilade of entertainment rooms which include a 36-foot-long living room, a formal dining room, a corner library that is 25’ long, an entertainment room, two enormous windowed eat-in kitchens both with breakfast rooms and large pantries and a windowed laundry room.

This stunning home has been thoughtfully designed by AD100 interior designer Jacques Grange and has rich Versailles patterned wood floors, oversized brand-new windows, soaring ceilings, and an abundance of prewar architectural details. There are two double staff rooms located on the top floor of the building that transfer with the apartment; one has its own private bathroom and the other shares a hallway bathroom.

You arrive on the 8th Floor at a private elevator landing, which opens onto a regal entrance gallery, perfect for a significant art collection. There is a large coat closet and a perfect powder room. The sumptuous living room is in the center and has three oversized windows overlooking Park Avenue; this impressive room houses the first wood burning fireplace.  

Adjacent to the North is an oversized formal dining room that can seat twenty-four people for formal gatherings and to the South is the corner library with handsome wood paneling and the second wood burning fireplace. Through French doors is yet another beautiful entertaining room that faces South onto double wide 72nd Street with brilliant light. 

A chef’s dream, there is a corner eat-in kitchen with an expansive informal dining area. It is superbly outfitted with custom cabinets, a center island, and endless amounts of storage. There is a windowed butler pantry with two additional pantry closets as well as a back staircase that connects to the 7th Floor kitchen. There are three bedrooms or two and a media room on this floor and two full-window bathrooms.

Down a sculptural, architectural staircase are the private quarters. The luxurious, sun-flooded primary bedroom is over twenty-six feet long and overlooks Park Avenue. It has a large sitting room and a massive dressing room. The luxurious windowed primary bathroom is clad in marble and has a steam shower, a deep soaking tub, two sinks, and a separate water closet.  

The second bedroom is a corner room facing South and East; it has an en-suite windowed bathroom, a wood burning fireplace, and a walk-in closet. The third and fourth bedrooms face South over 72nd Street and have excellent closet space; they share an enormous, windowed bathroom with two sinks and a bathtub. The fourth and fifth bedrooms have en-suite windowed bathrooms and great closets 

THERE’S MORE…
This floor has the second bright windowed eat-in kitchen which has a magnificent breakfast room that faces West as well as a huge laundry room and a powder room. The large laundry room has two sets of full-sized vented washer dryers and a double soaking sink. In addition, there is a large dressing room/mud room with a full bathroom off the gallery. There is also a back staircase in the home.

Two storage bins and two outside staff rooms transfer with the sale. Designed by W. L. Rouse and L.A. Goldstone and constructed in 1924 by Starrett Brothers & Eken, 760 Park Avenue is a neo-Renaissance prewar co-op. There is a full-time door attendant, live-in resident manager, and gym.

Info: Asking $22,500,000. For more information on 760 Park Avenue,
visit Brown Harris Stevens at bhsusa.com

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