Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Tommy Hilfiger co-founder Joel Horowitz built his Tahoe retreat in 2000 and filled it with every delight known to mortals: two par-3 golf holes, a 3,200-bottle wine cellar, an art studio with ceramics kiln, an indoor swimming pool, a horse stable, a boathouse, a 16-car garage, and an NBA-regulation basketball court. Plus, there’s a staircase reclaimed from the Titanic, flooring reclaimed from a 17th-century French chateau, flooring reclaimed from the New York Public Library, and a bronze door once owned by newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst. Well, turns out all that reclaiming does not a property sell. Tranquility, as this funhouse is called, has been languishing on the market for a few years now—we thinketh perhaps the $100M price tag had a little something to do with its failure to sell. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that the massive 20,000-square-foot estate has been price-chopped to $75M. In a statement, listing agent Shari Chase called the shiny new price tag “an amazing value.” · Tahoe Lakeside Requires Boatload of $100M Big Ones [Curbed National] · $100 Million Tahoe Estate Reduces its Price to $75 Million [WSJ]
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PriceChopper: "Tranquility" Estate Drops Price by a Quarter and Still Asks $75M
Hey, design-challenged Angelenos, Bravo’s looking for you: “Specifically, we’re looking for families or roommates who haven’t yet fixed an area of their house because they can’t agree on what it should become …We’re specifically looking for Los Angeles houses in upscale neighborhoods.” It’s Bravo, so any “expert” they bring in is probably mildly famous. Hit up interiordesigncasting@gmail.com for more info. [Curbed LA]
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Lots of ridiculous things happen in the Meatpacking District. Girls defy gravity and cobblestone streets in their towering heels, Jesse Camp pees off of hotel rooftops, and just last week, Tommy Hilfiger built a twee, temporary cottage there. So it really comes as no surprise that fancy-pants nightclub Provocateur has started selling “skin-enhancing” cocktails to its beauty-obsessed, Botox-loving crowd. [ more › ]
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Your Face Is A Mess, But That’s Nothing A Little Drinky-Poo Can’t Fix
Were you dying to buy some preppy clothes in an equally preppy cottage? And is the Polo Mansion just too uptown for you? Well, Tommy Hilfiger just opened up an 800-square-foot pop-up shop in the Meatpacking District. Hilfiger told the NY Times, “The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It’s all-American classic.” [ more › ]
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Just What We Needed: A Fake Hamptons House In The Meatpacking District
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Location: Zephyr Cove, Nev. Price $100,000,000 The Skinny: Sited on 210 coveted acres on the shores of Lake Tahoe, the estate known as Tranquility was built in 2000 by Tommy Hilfiger co-founder Joel Horowitz. The laundry list of exotic features reads like a resort brochure: two par-3 golf holes, a 3,200-bottle wine cellar, an art studio with ceramics kiln, an indoor swimming pool, a horse stable, boathouse, 16-car garage, and an NBA-regulation basketball court. The absurdities extend to the decor too, of course, what with a replica of the Titanic staircase, flooring reclaimed from a 17th-century French chateau, and a carved bronze door once owned by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. Despite all the unique features and stunning location, Tranquility has been languishing on the market for more than four years. Maybe that has something to do with the price tag: a cool $100M. At this point, it doesn’t look like a chop is in sight. · Tranquility [Chase Interational] · 10 Spectacular Ski Homes for Sale [ZillowBlog] · What Price Tranquility? $100 Million [Forbes]
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House of the Day: Tahoe Lakeside Requires Boatload of $100M Big Ones
Imagine one of these babies burnin’ a hole in your pocket: Pantone will launch a whole paint deck’s worth of colorful Visas next spring. Among the designers with patented, numbered hues are Tommy Hilfiger, Carmen Marc Valvo and Christian Siriano. Fierce, people, fierce. [Mediabistro UnBeige]
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Last night The Strokes (remember them?) played their hometown of New York City for the first time in four years … but you weren’t invited. Amongst the people who were invited were Christina Hendricks, Jennifer Lopez, and the cast of Gossip Girl . The A-list attendees got to hear eight songs by the band, who were playing at Tommy Hilfiger’s 25th anniversary bash at the Metropolitan Opera house. An excited Neil Patrick Harris was also there, and tweeted , “After party at the frigging metropolitan opera! Watching the Strokes perform. In the lobby! Unreal.” According to NYMag , singer Julian Casablancas addressed the audience, saying, “What is up? It’s been my dream since I was a little boy to play the Metropolitan Opera.” The Modern Age has a rundown of all you need to know, including their set list, which you can find below along with a video from the performance. Setlist NYC Cops Hard to Explain You Only Live Once 12:51 Last Nite Reptilia Someday Juicebox
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The Strokes: Fashionably Late For Their Own Comeback
A fashion designer who worked for high-end coat company S. Rothschild & Co ., which supplies DKNY and Tommy Hilfiger, has filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit against her former boss, claiming that she had to leave the company in 2008 because of his “egregious sexual harassment.” The Daily News obtained the court papers , which paint a pervy portrait of Michael Kaufman, the boss of plaintiff Maria Adamkiewicz. According to the lawsuit, Kaufman’s quite the character, and loves spicing up boring meetings with antics like licking Adamkiewicz’s hand. Which he then followed up with the age-old question, “Is that sexual harassment?” That’s now for a Manhattan court to decide. But Kaufman’s bizarrely ribald shenanigans didn’t stop there—the lawsuit claims he “once took off his belt in front of another employee, snapped it and said he was going to whip her with it—and dropped his pants on another occasion.” Oh, and on a business trip to LA, “Kaufman pulled up next to a Hustler lingerie shop and told Adamkiewicz and a colleague they buy sex toys to use with their boyfriends.” At least, that’s what she said (in the lawsuit).
Four Bronx teens are facing a year behind bars after nailing a cop in the leg with a snowball. Their crime? Weapons possession, attempted assault, menacing and harassment. Late last month the friends were out in a snowstorm and hit officer Adonis Ramirez, who was not in uniform at the time. According to the teens, Ramirez then pulled a gun, and 19-year-old Christian Perez tells the Daily News , “I thought he was some drug dealer who was going to shoot me in the head and walk away. We only hit him once, and it was by mistake.” They nearly got laughed out of Central Booking when they said they were in there for a snowball. Meanwhile, Ramirez claims he was struck with several snowballs as he was walking to his car; he also says the group was taunting him. They allegedly called him a “bitch” and said “Let’s jump him.” Somewhere between pulling his gun out and having them arrested, he called 911 for backup. While the Bronx district attorney doesn’t plan to drop charges, the friends are preparing to slap the city with a $10 million suit. Their lawyer says, “You would think that the NYPD would focus on real crimes and not on young men playing in the snow during a nor’easter.”
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Snowball Gets 4 Teens Arrested