Our new listing on 174 Soundview Lane is generating interest all the way in Texas! The popular real estate magazine DallasDirt , writing on its blog about the residence of actor Patrick Dempsey, mentioned the Soundview home in the following item:
Dr. McDreamy’s Home On Market, A New England Dream
“That is, the residence of actor Patrick Dempsey , who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, looking very New England (Dempsey is from Maine) but actually located in Los Angeles, listed for $3,595,000. But if it’s New England you want, I offer up this charming New Canaan Country Cape Cod frequented by the many movie stars who live in the area including Lauren Bacall and Glenn Close. This clapboard gem is a mere $2,295,000 on one of New Canaan’s most coveted streets and a short train ride out of NYC”
To set up an appointment to see our 174 Soundview listing, call the Realty Guild’s Brett Ciarlo at 856-8200.
174 Soundview is set on over four acres at the end of a private lane.
The heated pool and pool house.
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Logically speaking, you might not expect many sale price records to be broken in the current financial climate, regardless of the commodity. Yet that is just what has taken place in the last week at Christie’s, where works of art have inspired buyers to bid to incredible heights.
On December 11th, a 35.56-carat, blue diamond known as the Wittelbach Diamond, sold for $24.3 million at a Christie’s auction in London. That smashed the previous record price for a diamond sold at auction, which was $16.5 million for a 100-carat diamond back in 1995.
The Wittelbach Diamond
Then, on December 16th in an auction titled “Icons of Glamour and Style,” a photograph by the late photographer Helmut Newton, called “Sie Kommen, (Naked and Dressed), Paris, 1981″ went for a record $662,500, almost double the $380,725 it had sold for just last year. That was followed by a set of photographs of Marilyn Monroe by photographer Bert Stern, a collection known as “The Last Sitting,’’ that more than doubled the previous high it had been sold for, demanding a price tag of $146,500.
Even Christie’s acknowledged being pleasantly surprised at the various “realized prices” of the items, considering the recent financial challenges.
But according to Christies, the record prices reflected a combination of factors that were intrinsic about the diamond and photographs that tend to generate high passion for a work of art.
Take the Wittelbach Diamond. It is a one of a kind. A very large blue diamond (blue diamonds are exceedingly rare), it is also of such clarity that it is compared to the famed Hope Diamond now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Another characteristic of the diamond, perhaps more impactful on a work of art’s ability to make a deep connection with a collector, is its rich history.
The Wittelbach Diamond was the favorite of European Royalty for centuries. King Philip IV of Spain purchased the stone in 1664 and made it part of the dowry for his teenage daughter. Through marriage, it became the property of the Wittelbach family, a well known European royal family, in 1772. It stayed in their possession until some time after 1918, when it was lost in the aftermath of World War I. Christie’s first auctioned the Wittelbach Diamond in 1931, and it resurfaced in the 1960s, when a jeweler recognized its historical significance and refused a request to cut it.
“The Last Sitting,’’ photos of Monroe have a very poignant history as well. They were taken by Stern on an assignment for Vogue magazine in July of 1962. The images were intimate and artistic, and Monroe was at the height of her career. But it was the timing of the shots that had the greatest impact on their value. The photo shoot took place just six weeks before the actresses’ untimely death at the age of 36. They are believed to be the last commercial photos taken of Monroe, and ran in the September 1962 issue of Vogue as a memorial.
A photo from Stern's "The Last Sitting."
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