Journalist Anderson Cooper’s residence on the East Side of Manhattan popped up for sale recently. The co-op unit is priced at $1.125 million, and was the home of Cooper’s late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
The building dates to 1931, and is a residential landmark of Beekman Place. The apartment is a two-bedroom flat with 2.5 baths and a bevy of original details that includes a French-style living room fireplace mantel and milled plaster.
The home’s restlessly expressionistic décor is splendidly evocative of its famously artistic prior owner, with the shared spaces a travel-log of color, texture and convergence that accumulates into a very personal style. Only the kitchen comes off as reserved; in the context of the rest of the property, its quiet late 20th-century utilitarianism is much too charmingly down-to-earth to suggest irony.
An associated first-floor unit in the building may be offered as part and parcel of the sale for an as-yet undisclosed additional cost. The auxiliary property was used as an art studio, according to the listing details.
