The gothic Gramercy Park townhouse of late fashion designer Oleg Cassini is on the market for $13.95m just a year after it sold at auction.

Cassini  – who famously conceived ‘the Jackie look’ for Jackie Onassis Kennedy and became a designer to the stars – lived at the 7,000 sq ft Manhattan property at 135 East 19th Street until he died in 2006. It was later at the centre of a decade-plus-long estate battle between his daughter, Christina, and his widow, Marianne Nestor. After the bank foreclosed on it, The Real Deal reported that the house – which was valued at $15m at the market peak – sold to a sole bidder at auction for just $5m in October 2022.

The Gramercy Park townhouse was conceived as a ‘gothic fantasy’ by British architect Frederick Steiner, who designed it in 1910 for sugar heir Joseph B. Thomas. Steiner’s design reworked an existing Victorian rowhouse on the site into a five-storey townhouse with a stone first floor and four levels above, built in multi-coloured brick in a Flemish bond pattern. Diamond window panes and ‘Gothic eyebrows’ peek beneath its stepped gable roof, decorated with crouching gargoyles.

Steiner also reimagined the Victorian interiors, transforming the living room into a double-height ‘Italian Room’ with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, moulded plasterwork, colossal stone fireplace and wood panelled walls, and adding stained glass windows on every level. He also added a glass solarium’ indoor garden’ – integral to his designs.

The Joseph B. Thomas House turned out to be the best advertising for Steiner: he went on to remodel and design several properties in Gramercy Park throughout the early 20th century.

It’s now listed for sale via Compass.

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