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House of the Week: A Midcentury Modern Home With Loads of Natural Light

1 week ago | wsj.com | Sarah Paynter

Leafstedt and Clode paid $751,000 for the house in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood in 2000. Fans of midcentury-modern design, the pair wanted a stylish home with a fenced-in yard for their Gordon setter dogs. Sold on the property’s indoor-outdoor layout, they became only the second owners in the home’s roughly 60-year history, said Leafstedt, 63, an artist and former executive at Williams-Sonoma, Nike, Esprit and Liz Claiborne.
A $620,000 Renovation Kept Their Art-Filled Home From Feeling Like a Museum

2 weeks ago | mansionglobal.com | Sarah Paynter

Curating a 120-piece art collection was easy. Displaying it at home? That was the hard part. Color and architectural ornamentation in a home can compete with paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles and pottery. But Alan King and his husband, Benjamin King, said they didn’t want to live in a sterile, gallery-like white box. MORE: Ferrari Hikes Prices After Tariffs. But Some of the Most Collectible Supercars Will Go Untaxed. “This is our home.
A $620,000 Renovation Kept Their Art-Filled Home From Feeling Like a Museum

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Sarah Paynter

“This is our home. We’ve never wanted to live in a museum,” said Alan, 65, chief executive of Workplace Options, a provider of employee well-being perks. So in 2023, when they bought a $1.4 million penthouse in downtown Raleigh, N.C., they opted for textured decor in neutral colors that wouldn’t compete with their contemporary art collection, said their interior designer Sally Williams of Colorful Concepts Interior Design in Raleigh.
Meet the Homeowners Who Have Had Enough of Their Covid Relocation Dreams

4 weeks ago | mansionglobal.com | Sarah Paynter

Five years ago this month, Rebecca Goldberg Brodsky and her husband, Mitchell Brodsky, were working from home in a roughly 750-square-foot Brooklyn apartment with a baby, a toddler, and thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, no child care. By September 2020, they—along with people all over the country—had decided to leave their home in search of more space.
Meet the Homeowners Who Have Had Enough of Their Covid Relocation Dreams

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Sarah Paynter

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Exclusive | Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart Lists Historic Detroit Mansion for $7 Million

1 month ago | wsj.com | Sarah Paynter

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Mark Stewart is the new CEO of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, so it’s fitting that he owns a historic Detroit home built by an early auto-industry titan. With an indoor pool and a hidden bar, the circa-1926 house was built during a glittering era of Motor City parties—but these days, the ballroom is usually used for karaoke, said Stewart. Already a subscriber? Sign In
Exclusive | A $24,000 Sculpture Inspires an $8.9 Million South Carolina Home

1 month ago | wsj.com | Sarah Paynter

In a clifftop South Carolina home, a sculpture of a man appears to gaze at a wooden carving with a small house at its center. Sarah and John Garvey built their house around the piece, “Casa Blanca,” by Argentine artist Raul Diaz. They relate to the sculpture as they look back on their lives, said Sarah, a retired Boeing executive and board member at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ben Simmons Lists $16.995 Million Brooklyn Condo Following Move to the Clippers

1 month ago | mansionglobal.com | Sarah Paynter

Shortly after signing with the Los Angeles Clippers, former Brooklyn Nets player Ben Simmons is putting his Brooklyn condo on the market for $16.995 million. The five-bedroom residence is on the 21st floor of the Olympia Dumbo building near the Brooklyn Bridge, according to listing agent M. Monica Novo of Douglas Elliman. Simmons, a 28-year-old point guard, paid about $14 million for two units in the building while it was under construction in 2023, said Novo.
The Las Vegas Area Is Getting Two Pricey Home Listings

1 month ago | msn.com | Libertina Brandt |Sarah Paynter

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Exclusive | The Las Vegas Area Is Getting Two Pricey Home Listings

1 month ago | wsj.com | Libertina Brandt |Sarah Paynter

Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 02:13This article is in your queue. Two pricey new listings in the Las Vegas metro area are both fully furnished with five bedrooms, but they offer drastically different lifestyles: a sleek penthouse is asking $25 million, while a mountainside single-family home is going on the market for $15 million.