Famed designer Ralph Lauren has purchased a new apartment in the same Upper East Side building, a 14-story building on the corner of East 92nd Street, where he has lived full-time with his wife, Ricky, for the past 40 years. Property records confirm that the celebrated fashion designer has shelled out the sum of $4 million for this brilliantly located apartment at 1107 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Lauren closed the deal with estate figure Nancy Norman Lassalle, who in her lifetime served as a founder and board member of the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet and who died in 2021. For his part, the designer moved into the building in Manhattan s historic Carnegie Hill district, where he raised his entire family in the duplex penthouse he owned for four decades.
An apartment in the Manhattan building where he has lived for four decades.
The designer is faithful to his conviction as a fashion expert, so the remodeling of his firstborn apartment took place immediately until it became a true masterpiece, where light and illumination are fundamental pieces of this apartment. Hence Ralph can ensure that he manages to live in New York in a way that can blend comfort and simplicity wonderfully well.
The building where the designer resides and where he managed to buy another of the apartments was built by the George Fuller Construction Company in 1925 and is a building that enjoys great fame and history as it is listed as one of the most important buildings in the world the building that housed the first penthouse in New York City.
This episode is part of the architectural history of New York because to build this penthouse, the builder had to convince the original owner Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton, to renounce her mansion located on the site categorically. Negotiation was not easy, but she finally agreed that most of her 54-room estate be recreated on the building’s top 3 floors.
This created an incredible triplex penthouse with 54 rooms and a private entrance to 2 East 92nd Street. Hence there may be an architectural designation for this apartment, and no one better than the famous New York architectural historian Andrew Alpern who defined it as the largest and most luxurious apartment ever built. A beauty that was later divided into half a dozen smaller apartments, and where each of them managed to get nine rooms.
History and luxury for Ralph Lauren’s apartment in the heart of New York City
New York is capable of being one of the most architecturally representative areas about luxury areas and with a buying intent that drives everyone crazy. The rich and famous go out of their way to get an apartment in its luxurious and historic streets and avenues, and Manhattan undoubtedly represents the climax of these privileged areas.
That is why the famous fashion designer dedicated a lifetime to living in this area. Why now, after 40 years of relationship with the city, he has decided to buy a new apartment in the same iconic building where he lives. And possibly, it is a decision for real estate investment purposes, or maybe he plans to surprise us with one of his incredible design ideas applied to the property and thus delight us as he has managed to do throughout his successful and fruitful artistic career.