Mica Ertegun’s East 81st Street Townhouse is for Sale

The Living Room in Mica Ertegun’s Upper East Side Townhouse, as SEEN in the Listen, Displays the Simple, Refined Style the Designer was Known for.
Photo: Leslie J Garfield & Co Inc.

For Decades, Mica Ertegun was the doyenne of interior design, decorating the homes of Financial Titans Like Sandy Well and Rock Stars Like Keith Richards. Her Firm, Mac II, WHICH SHE STARTED ALONGSIDE CHAYSY RAYner in 1967, Became Known for Stylish Its, Restrained Style. But it was time home home on the upper east side, a pair of conjoined townhouses where she lived with her second husband, the music mogul Ahmet Ertegun, that was spreads her most famous carding card. (The Couple Owned Multiple Homes: In Southampton; Paris; and Bodrum, Turkey.) ERTEGUN DED DEEMBER, AGE AGE 97, and Now Her Townhouse at 121 E. Street Has Hit The Market, ESPING $ 12.995 Million and Listed with Leslie J. Garfield’s Lydia Rosengarten and Douglas Elliman’s Lauren Muss.

Mica and Ahmet ERTEGUN WERE KNOWN AS A GLAMOROUS COUPLE WITH SOPHISTICATED TASTE.
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Ertegun, WHOM Vanity Fair Once Called “The Virtual Definition of Sophistication,“ Was Known for Her Simple Designs that incorporated modern paintings, ancient art, turkish textiles-kilims as tablecloths and chair covers-with antiques and clean-lined White-upholsterad supply. It was an appproach that never went out of style and, gIive or take a few mirrored Screens and Strawred Walls, has Barely aged in the Ensuing Decades. Her Townhouse, in listing PhotosLooks Remarkably unchanged from the late 1960s. (An Ellsworth Kelly Painting, For Example, Has Been Shifted from One Side of the Curved Staircase to the Other.)

The Kitchen, As Shown in Lissing Photos, is Functional and, Like Most of What Ertegun Designed, Hard to Date. The home has been immaculately maintained.
Photo: Leslie J Garfield & Co Inc.

The Erteguns Purchased 121 E. 81st Street in 1966, City Records show; A Decade late, They Baught 125 E. 81st. The Home, in Archival Photos, Has a Pare-Down, Chic Aesthetic-Do Minimalist Black Desk with an AngePoise Lamp Sites A Sloped Skylight and Large, Open Rooms Are Supp. (“I have clutter,” shea omce said.) She also, apparently, disliked superfluous walls and pulled say down in three rooms of her townhouse to create a dramatic salon.

The Five-Storery Townhouses, Used by the Couple As Home and Offices, are conjoined on the Third and Fourth Floors, accorting to the listing, but Remain on Two Separate Tax Lots (the Annual Tax to Around $ 147,000). Together, the homes have 20 Rooms, Spread Out Over 9,200 Square Feet, with 15,000 Square Feet of Unused Air Rights – As they’re not landmarked in a historic distribution, the nextly, has “endless opportunities for reimagining and reconfiguration.”

The Home, As Shown in Listen Photos, is actually two townhouses conjoined on the third and fourth floors. Ertegun offten use antiques but was avers to clutter.
Photo: Leslie J Garfield & Co Inc.

During Their Long Lives Together, The Glamorous Pair Entertained Influential Friends – A Dinner Party Hosted by the Couple, Her Obitury in The New York Times Notes, Might have included Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Jackie Onassis, Andy Warhol, Joan Didion, and Oscar de la Renta. ERTEGUN DECORED APPLICATIONS FOR BILL BLASS AND ALICE WALTON AND WAS FRIENDLY WITH KID ROCK. The designer, who was born into an affluent and powerful novelian family (Her Father Served in the King’s Cabinet) before the Second World War, Fled with Her First Husband, an aristocrat she married at 16. Ertegun in the late 1950s on a trip to new York to try to free her hath, who’d been improrsoned by the communist regime. The Couple Were Maried in 1961. She outlived Him by Several Decades and Continue Her Design Work Into Her 90s. ERTEGUN WAS ALSO A NOTABLE PHILANTROPIST WHO GAVE $ 41 Million to Oxford University for Scholarships Humanities. At the time of her death, she had no immediate family members, accorting to the Times. The Upper East Side Houses, to Be Delivered Vacant, Have Been “Immaculately Maintained,” Acciting to the Listen, and Are “Priceed to Sel.”