Blasberg and his husband recently closed on a full-floor co-op on Park Avenue.
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Derek Blasberg and Nicholas Brown have closed on a sprawling Park Avenue co-op, city records show. The influencer and his husband, a co-founder of the venture-capital firm Imaginary, which has backed Glossier and Kim Kardashian’s Skims, paid $8.3 million for a four-bedroom, four-bathroom unit at 635 Park. (Attending fashion shows at the Park Avenue Armory will no longer require an Uber.)
The new apartment has ten-foot ceilings and takes up the entire ninth floor in the 13-story Adelaide. It features a “memorable” circular entrance gallery (which sellers Howard and Ellen Katz often used as a photo backdrop when hosting events) that flows into a grand living room, library, and Biedermeier-style wet bar. The airy kitchen, designed by Bilotta Kitchens, leads into a dining room that can easily seat 18 people — perfect for hosting celebrity friends, if indeed Blasberg and Gwyneth Paltrow are still speaking.
The circular entrance gallery, as shown in listing photos, was used by the unit’s sellers as a photo backdrop at events they hosted.
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The apartment previously had an old Park Avenue vibe, as show in listing photos, with tasseled arm chairs, heavy drapery, and ornate mirrors.
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The unit in the 1912 Italianate Adelaide was floated via whisper listing, per Crain’s New York, but old photos of the apartment can be found around the internet all the same. Those pictures show a rather old Park Avenue vibe, including tasseled armchairs and a rose-wallpapered bathroom, but Blasberg has experience renovating the fussy out of an Upper East Side prewar.
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