Rothschild bachelor pad townhouse up for sale in New York for $17.5 million
See pictures of the Bullingdon club member’s David Chipperfield designed home
The British-born banker Nat Rothschild has put his New York City bachelor pad on the market for $17.5 million, fifteen years after he bought it.
Rothschild had the four-storey townhouse at 8 St Luke’s Place in the West Village redesigned by the architect David Chipperfield.
The New York Observer reported that he paid $5.575 million for the 1852 landmarked residence in 2000 and spend another £350,000 on renovations – though he was initially reluctant to include a kitchen, if an interview Chipperfield gave to Men’s Vogue is to be believed.
In the end, Chipperfield convinced Rothschild to convert the basement into a “lab-like caterer’s kitchen and wine cellar to rival any restaurant’s”, despite the fact that Rothschild doesn’t drink.
Rothschild was born in England and educated at Eton and Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club at the same time as George Osborne. He married Annabelle Neilson, model and muse of the late Alexander McQueen and lived in New York for a time. After the marriage disintegrated he moved to Switzerland.
He is the chairman of JNR Limited, an investment consultant focussed on emerging markets and commodities. In 2011 the Sunday Times estimated his worth at $1.6 billion.
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