Residential brokers are wont to label their listings as “unique” or “one-of-a-kind,” even when describing less than distinctive properties. But Lauren Muss of the Corcoran Group, who is marketing a penthouse condominium at 225 East 24th Street, listed yesterday for almost $6 million, has a pretty good case for using either adjective. With seemingly every surface covered in recycled barn wood or Portuguese slate — and more than one mounted set of antlers — the apartment is certainly idiosyncratic.
The soundproof, full-floor duplex, between Second and Third avenues, comes with 4,058 square feet of interior space and 2,400 square feet on a private terrace, the listing says. A Zen stone garden leads to the home’s 40-foot-wide living room, which features 14-foot wood-beamed ceilings. The apartment’s slate walls extend to the master bedroom’s rain shower, while the barn wood is used for sliding doors, giving the place the feel of a rock star’s hunting cabin. (In fact, the master bedroom’s tousled bedding cradles an electric guitar.)
The two-bedroom home has four skylights and four fireplaces, one of which is a free-standing gas fireplace in the master suite. Head up a cantilevered staircase to the upper level’s pavilion, which is enclosed in glass underneath zinc ceilings and has an eight-person hot tub, a steam room and two landscaped terraces with automated irrigation.
The seller is a man named David Merin.
Muss was not immediately available for comment. –Zachary Kussin