Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Compass
Vanderbilt, who is also the mother ofAnderson Cooper, lived in the Upper East Side residence in the 1980s and ’90s according to a release from Compass, which isco-listing the propertywith Leslie Garfield for $11.995 million.
According to the real estate agency, the late Vanderbilt was “drawn to the greenhouse on the first floor that became her painting studio.” The space (below) features large skylights and checkerboard floors.
Now, the room serves as an art gallery and entertainment space for the home’s current resident, photographer and writer Priscilla Rattazzi, the listing notes.
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The 19-foot-wide, ivy-covered home has five levels and includes six bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms, a greenhouse covering the garden, a solarium and a newly renovated kitchen. It also features four wood-burning fireplaces and an elevator.
In August of last year, Cooper, 55, put his mother’s Midtown East apartment on the market and just a month later found a buyer. She had lived in the home for nearly 25 years before herdeath in 2019.
Vanderbilt gaveNew York Magazinea tour of her apartment in 2018,revealing the inspirations behind her home’s aesthetic.
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“What is beautiful to me may not be beautiful to someone else, or what someone else does may not be what I like,” she said at the time. “But I always know one thing leads to another and I know the direction I’m going.”
Vanderbilt, who was an heiress to one of the wealthiest families in America, a socialite, artist and fashion designer died at age 95.
Vanderbilt had cancer, her son confirmed, explaining in a CNN obituary at the time of her death, “Earlier this month, we had to take her to the hospital. That’s where we learned she had very advanced cancer in her stomach and that it had spread. When the doctor told her she had cancer, she was silent for a while, and then she said, ‘Well, it’s like that old song: Show me the way to get out of this world, because that’s where everything is.’ "
CNN reportedthat she died in her Manhattan home with friends and family at her side.
“Love is what she believed in more than anything,” Cooper said. He continued, “Gloria Vanderbilt died as she lived: on her own terms.”
source: people.com
