Somewhere Around the Corner by Jackie French

“I move around like a restless nut going from room to room.”īut Mr. “Every time I think there’s a spot in the house that I love the most, I go and sit somewhere else and I love that the most,” he said. He declined to say exactly how much he spent on the renovation. “You would hate me within a few hours,” he said of those encountering him in the midst of a renovation. For example, he brought in a crew of painters from Paris to brush out the walls of some of the rooms in the cottony strokes that he prefers. Zander said he has a tendency toward “obsessive compulsive behavior” when it comes to his properties, and spent “gobs and gobs” of money on the renovation, zeroing in on even the smallest details. “They took it to like 91% and we’ve taken it to 150%,” Mr.

Krakoff and his wife, Delphine Krakoff, had done their own significant renovation to the property.

More: Townhouse From ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Lists for $27.5 Millionīefore Mr. More than 30 people worked on the yearslong renovation, which involved rebuilding a sagging portion of the house’s facade, Mr. Zander commissioned the Paris-based interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch to redo the interiors, and the French landscape architect Louis Benech to revamp the gardens. “It’s a fun fact but nothing beyond that,” he said. “For all of its beauty, it was restrained and subtle,” he said.įor him, the connection to Ms. He also loved the proportions of the rooms, which he said were filled with light. Zander said he was surprised by the scale of the windows, which aren’t typical of the period in which the house was built. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, and her father, John Bouvier, in Southampton in 1934.

Somewhere Around the Corner by Jackie French