This cooler-than-cool Brooklyn townhouse is on the market for $18 million, making it Park Slope’s most expensive home currently for sale. Adding to the allure, just a couple of months ago the story of its transformation by award-winning Leroy Street Studio landed in the pages of Architectural Digest. Needless to day, fashion-forward buyers with plenty to spend should take note, because this design gem may not be available long.
The sellers are Jeanne and Dennis Masel, philanthropists who turned the British Regency-style townhouse with bowed windows and a limestone exterior into a modern and creative abode, according to AD. The home reflects the pair’s personalities and interests. Jeanne is the founder of Art for Change, while Dennis is an entrepreneur, musician, and film producer.
Built in 1910, the townhouse encompasses five bedrooms, three full bathrooms, and one half-bath. A sunken family room is surrounded by walls of glass that open to seamlessly blend the indoors and outdoors. Double-height ceilings in the entertaining spaces allow for light-filled, airy interiors with ample wall space to show off artwork (this couple has plenty of notable pieces, including work by Takashi Murakami). Ascending a sculptural staircase, you come to the home’s private and spacious accomodations. The primary suite occupies the entire third level, while the rest of the bedrooms occupy the fourth floor.
Of course, a film producer needs a screening room. A library and roof terrace are also part of the new footprint. “It’s all designed for creativity,” Dennis told AD. That includes exuberant displays of color, texture, and shape that take the mind to somewhere imaginative and serene.
David Feldman and Richard Orenstein of Brown Harris Stevens hold the colorful yet clean listing, which sits less than a block from Prospect Park.