A Little Sunday Morning Floor Plan Porn

SELLER: estate of Randolph and June Speight
LOCATION: 740 Park Avenue, New York, NY
PRICE: $35,000,000
SIZE: 6,700 square feet (approx.), 4 bedrooms 4.5 bathrooms (plus 4 staff bedrooms and 2 staff bathrooms)
DESCRIPTION: Offered for the first time in over forty years, this immense duplex includes a private elevator landing, high ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, a vast marble Gallery, and a grand staircase. The main level features a baronial Living Room, a handsome walnut-paneled Library, and a tremendous Dining Room. All boast sunny southern outlooks and wood burning fireplaces. A Powder Room and coast closet are conveniently adjacent. There is a Butler's pantry, large kitchen, breakfast room, two staff rooms and a staff bath on the main level. Upstairs off a long Gallery Hall are four enormous bedrooms with over-sized walk-in closets and huge en suite marble bathrooms. A laundry room, two staff room, a staff bath, and backstairs complete this floor.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today is Sunday, and like the good Lord above, we take this day to rest. However, before we get to mixing up a pitcher of Bloody Mary's Your Mama thought the children might like a little floor plan porn to drool over.

It would seem there is a changing of the guard over at the super swank 740 Park Avenue. First wedding dress designer Vera Wang moved into her parent's gigantic duplex that spread across that 10th and 11th floors. Next came billionaire industrialist Ira Rennart who generously dumped $32,000,000 on an a-line duplex apartment for his lucky lucky daughter Tamara Winn and her even luckier huzband David.

Just a few weeks ago Chinese born investor Peter Huang put his colossal co-op on the market with a blistering asking price of $38,000,000 and now, as first reported by Josh Barbanel at the New York Times, the estate of long time resident and former co-op board president Randolph Speight and his wifey June has hit the market with an only slightly less dramatic asking price of $35,000,000.

The Speight apartment happens to be adjacent to the Huang apartment which means that, pending board approval, natch, a billionaire with boo-coo bucks to burn on renovations could purchase both unit and create on of the largest and most lavish co-operative apartments in all of Noo York City.

Even though that is unlikely and would prolly be nearly impossible to get approved by the notoriously prickly and persnickety board, it would not be the first time two units at 740 Park have been combined. Former Time Warner head honcho Steven Ross and his third wifey Courtney Sale Ross merged two units on the 12th and 1th floors to create one leviathan 32-room spread. Miz Sale Ross inherited the dee-luxe doo-plex when Mister Ross died and reportedly let's it sit empty most of the time as she spends most of her time in East Hampton, NY.

Anyhoo, according to 740 Park eagle eye Michael Gross, Mister and Missus Speight (he a banker type who married into June's oil money family) owned their fourth and fifth floor duplex since 1965. Current listing information does not include any dee-lishus photos of the interiors, but the incredibly well resolved floor plan is pure candy with a ballroom sized living room, a banquet hall sized dining room, a gloriously curving staircase and four principal bedrooms each with a mammoth marble bathroom.

Staff accommodations are spread across the rear of the unit with 2 bedrooms and a bath on the 4th floor and 2 more bedrooms, a bathroom and a large laundry room on the fifth. Your Mama thinks it would be a cruel and inhuman punishment to even suggest that a dignified person live in one of those itty bitty bedrooms, so we can only hope that the room shave either been combined or are used as household offices and storage space. As far as Your Mama is concerned, anyone with thirty some million clams to spend on a New York City apartment should have the decency to spend another few million for a proper and nearby apartment to house the full time staff people.

Now then, have fun trying to imagine where you'd put your brown leather Broyhill sectional sofa and your grandmother's scratched up antique buffet.