Think I was expecting more from fixtures & fittings for $9.5M but it is a stunning building. I would need more of an outlook too. Best bit for me is the outside space
Mark Rothko is, arguably, the greatest painter of the 20th century. What's not debatable is how awful this home is, chopped up and gentrified by people with more money than taste, a befitting exclamation point to the unaffordability of artists's spaces in NYC. Rothko is rolling over in his grave.
Really disappointing interior gut job. Zero history, zero charm. Looks like a white box suburban new construction inside. So tired of seeing developers do this to historical architecture in NYC.
It would have to be torn down to the bare studs and with historical photographs, turned into a proper artists's space again. Fat chance, obviously. When hell freezes over.
I don't normally like to act like the grammar police, but I would think that a show dealing with rich people's possessions should probably know the difference between WHO'S and WHOSE!
You need to get your facts on Rothko correct - first he did not paint the painting that was sold for $186M there - he used the space as a studio to paint the murals that would go into the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
Considering the building, its history, and the location, they could have gotten an Axel Veervoordt or a Vincent Van Duysen to renovate this property correctly and gotten $20 million for it.
Just the 'garage' doors tell you there's a problem with people parking and blocking access - no thank you at $9.5m plus that garage has a skewed access when the doors are opened - awkward. Then the property inside doesn't do justice to the price point. Sorry, but too old and odd rooms as a result.
Rothko actually committed suicide in that apartment. He took an overdose and then cut an artery in his arm with a razor blade and bled to death in the kitchen.
You have to be kidding, I mean nearly 10 million dollars for a throwback kitchen from the 1960's😂 location is awesome but speaking as a investor, this sounds like a scam 😮
I studied his and many artworks in University so a big fan and seen his works at galleries also. I was surprised to read that this property was listed at 10.5 million originally. I think it has been changed to suit his children and they are selling it. I think it should be a museum showcasing all his works in existence that haven't been sold that the family owns. I think only very little of it actually was his actual things. He was a brilliant artist I was a kid when he passed but can remember it even before I studied. I became an artist myself much later in the 90's not as good as he was but inspired no less. Whomever gets this home will be very lucky indeed.
I'm sure his family has had nothing to do with the building since his death in 1970. The Rothko Foundation has considerable holdings of his work and it is displayed in museums all over the country.
The painter's history is irrelevant. The ambience is nice and it would suit me as I loath the hot sun but price wise you'd need to compare similar properties and if this still was of interest then the price would need to be negotiated. It will definitely suit a particular buyer and I'm sure it will sell well.
Gorgeous on the outside and just another bland, white & beige box inside. It boggles the mind how people can have so much money to renovate and not use it to create something warm and original. The interior lack of color, texture, richness and non descript furnishings make it look like a extended hotel space that you could find anywhere in the world.
Gorgeous home, however the interior design is too chaotic there’s superfluous styling in every corner of space which does not allow the rooms to breath and flow.
Rumour has it , that Mark Rothko got his pet chimp to sponge-paint most of the canvases, and then sell them to gullible enthusiasts . With the money, he made , he went and bought real art ( as well as bananas )
Ridiculous! Rothko was as appalled by the heated millionaires' market for art as you appear to be, even as he grudgingly profited by it. His actual art he could not have taken more seriously.
I know Rothko’s work. It’s stellar and genius. This house is sterile modern crap inside and has likely been ruined by a recent revamp. The kitchen in particular is wretched. It reads tiny, is too white, and none of it - none of it at all - gives “cozy” or “period.” Yuck. I will leave it for some nouveau riche investors.
Though the building is very interesting, as all these Upper East Side carriage houses are, and the examples on this row have some of the best bones of all, the apartment has very little to do with my favorite painter, Rothko's, life. Rothko moved his studio, not his residence, into the practically raw building in the mid-sixties, at the very end of his career. He lived with his family in a town house on 95th Street. The bright paintings that he is most known for, and certainly the examples featured in the video, were not made here. In this final period of his life, he was mostly working on the massive, dark, purple (and truly awesome, if you like abstract art) paintings for the Rothko Chapel, posthumously constructed in Houston. Rothko never liked The Upper East Side, too rich for his socialist immigrant tastes. His wife bought the 95th Street house in '59 after he had arrived at the top of the art market and was tired of midtown west apartments in buildings that were, anyway, rapidly being torn down to make way for the expansion of the corporate office building district. Rothko preferred the old 'hood's bohemian, workingish class mix of stage hands, photographers' assistants, under employed actors and the like that he would meet in the bars. He thought uptown bars boring and professional. Anyway, Rothko, in increasingly declining health, (he suffered a stroke in these last years that limited the size of work he could do without much assistance) due to a lifetime of smoking, thinning paints, in addition to personal problems that led to his leaving the townhouse and moving into the sparse, cluttered and dirty studio in the ground floor garage. He was drinking heavily and taking prescription medications and certainly in considerable physical pain when he ended his life by slitting his wrists in the bathroom of the studio in 1970. I love the neighborhood; I grew up there. Mark Rothko did not and I'm sure he'd puke if he knew that the old garage studio was worth millions of dollars. That's the way he thought, at least according to his biography, which I obviously read carefully.
Lovely channel and property… but is this the famous location where Mark Rothko slashed his wrists and bled to death? I recall the New York Times wrote about it.
Oh my god, who writes your scripts??!! After 2 minutes of this inane stating the obvious waffle I had to switch off. It’s TV / video, not a podcast - ‘show don’t tell’.
It feels like a basement property.
Think I was expecting more from fixtures & fittings for $9.5M but it is a stunning building. I would need more of an outlook too. Best bit for me is the outside space
Found it very claustrophobic despite its size
@@TERESABELINDE agree
@@TERESABELINDE I think yes the low ceilings and excessively bad lighting. No curves either.
@@Angelina6518 The lighting is incredibly bad. Those wall lights at the entry -- crookedly mounted -- are simply disrespectful.
It is like living in an elevated cave - dark dark dark.
Yeah, amazing given that everything is white and yet it feels mostly like a sterilized cave. Such depressing vibes.
I’ve walked past this home many times and always fantasise living there. Not anymore. Hate that there are no proper windows in the living room.
indeed
Mark Rothko is, arguably, the greatest painter of the 20th century. What's not debatable is how awful this home is, chopped up and gentrified by people with more money than taste, a befitting exclamation point to the unaffordability of artists's spaces in NYC. Rothko is rolling over in his grave.
or just haunting the property. this is where he killed himself
Previously owned by an artist, this property features terribly dated high cost rooms, and at $9.5m… is now owned by a comedian.
Money doesn't buy taste.
Owning this duplex is like owning a piece of history. Rothko's such a legend!
Rothko is a legend. His home, however, was mocked, bastardized, and destroyed.
my mom loves mark rothko's paintings, it's cool to see where he worked on them! :) also love that they've kept the history of this home intact
I’m so glad I don’t go back to work on Christmas vacation till January 3. I can watch luxury home show all day.🤣😄
Really disappointing interior gut job. Zero history, zero charm. Looks like a white box suburban new construction inside. So tired of seeing developers do this to historical architecture in NYC.
THANK YOU!!!! I feel exactly the same.
"Suburban" is precisely the correct description. 😐
This house is $9.5 million yet the necessity to have to spend another 2 million plus to renovate the outdated portions is a hard NO.
It would have to be torn down to the bare studs and with historical photographs, turned into a proper artists's space again. Fat chance, obviously. When hell freezes over.
how was that 10k square feet? it felt like 2
Any history was stripped away in its modernist renovation.
From art studio to mini mall. This the way.
I love this property. Has real character and history. I love the mix of vintage modern with the arts and craft feel.
Stunning ❤
That living room made the whole place feel dark except for the primary and terrace. If it wasn't connected to Rothko it would be worth much less.
they are trying to sell this unit so hard but are successfully failing
I don't normally like to act like the grammar police, but I would think that a show dealing with rich people's possessions should probably know the difference between WHO'S and WHOSE!
Been to a Rothko Exhibition and it was fantastic.
looks like child in kindergarten did the "art."
You need to get your facts on Rothko correct - first he did not paint the painting that was sold for $186M there - he used the space as a studio to paint the murals that would go into the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
Considering the building, its history, and the location, they could have gotten an Axel Veervoordt or a Vincent Van Duysen to renovate this property correctly and gotten $20 million for it.
"The artist whose work sold for $186m"?? Is that how we're remembering Rothko now?
Unfortunately, most of the world today values art like real estate.
Just the 'garage' doors tell you there's a problem with people parking and blocking access - no thank you at $9.5m plus that garage has a skewed access when the doors are opened - awkward. Then the property inside doesn't do justice to the price point. Sorry, but too old and odd rooms as a result.
Rothko actually committed suicide in that apartment. He took an overdose and then cut an artery in his arm with a razor blade and bled to death in the kitchen.
that's so kewl
No doubt... his Ghost still haunts the space.
You have to be kidding, I mean nearly 10 million dollars for a throwback kitchen from the 1960's😂 location is awesome but speaking as a investor, this sounds like a scam 😮
It's the sort of place a very rich person could keep a car, some art, and a mistress and do some partying away from the family.
If it looks like a duck...
I studied his and many artworks in University so a big fan and seen his works at galleries also. I was surprised to read that this property was listed at 10.5 million originally. I think it has been changed to suit his children and they are selling it. I think it should be a museum showcasing all his works in existence that haven't been sold that the family owns. I think only very little of it actually was his actual things. He was a brilliant artist I was a kid when he passed but can remember it even before I studied. I became an artist myself much later in the 90's not as good as he was but inspired no less. Whomever gets this home will be very lucky indeed.
Well presented Matt :) wish it could have been longer :)
I'm sure his family has had nothing to do with the building since his death in 1970. The Rothko Foundation has considerable holdings of his work and it is displayed in museums all over the country.
Nice sharing 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The painter's history is irrelevant. The ambience is nice and it would suit me as I loath the hot sun but price wise you'd need to compare similar properties and if this still was of interest then the price would need to be negotiated. It will definitely suit a particular buyer and I'm sure it will sell well.
Rothko committed suicide in 1970, presumably in That duplex's kitchen-? Hopefully it's not haunted.. Great career move for him, as with van Gogh..
You could get a sea view and beautiful weather for less than a tenth of that.
Gorgeous on the outside and just another bland, white & beige box inside. It boggles the mind how people can have so much money to renovate and not use it to create something warm and original. The interior lack of color, texture, richness and non descript furnishings make it look like a extended hotel space that you could find anywhere in the world.
A New Kitchen is a Must. Other than that, it’s beautiful.
LOVE
You were trying to sell this place so hard 😭
Gorgeous home, however the interior design is too chaotic there’s superfluous styling in every corner of space which does not allow the rooms to breath and flow.
Wasn't Mark Rothko's work used as a "weapon" by the "Agency" during the Cold War?
Is other unit a mess too ?
♥️ Stunning home, appreciate all the historical facts and features. I’d keep it just as. A beautiful charming home.
Rumour has it , that Mark Rothko got his pet chimp to sponge-paint most of the canvases, and then sell them to gullible enthusiasts .
With the money, he made , he went and bought real art ( as well as bananas )
That’s adorable!
Ridiculous! Rothko was as appalled by the heated millionaires' market for art as you appear to be, even as he grudgingly profited by it. His actual art he could not have taken more seriously.
Lucky you
@HINTEX-z8v
This is not 10,000 sqft.
This boy is so handsome
I know Rothko’s work. It’s stellar and genius.
This house is sterile modern crap inside and has likely been ruined by a recent revamp.
The kitchen in particular is wretched. It reads tiny, is too white, and none of it - none of it at all - gives “cozy” or “period.” Yuck.
I will leave it for some nouveau riche investors.
Though the building is very interesting, as all these Upper East Side carriage houses are, and the examples on this row have some of the best bones of all, the apartment has very little to do with my favorite painter, Rothko's, life. Rothko moved his studio, not his residence, into the practically raw building in the mid-sixties, at the very end of his career. He lived with his family in a town house on 95th Street. The bright paintings that he is most known for, and certainly the examples featured in the video, were not made here. In this final period of his life, he was mostly working on the massive, dark, purple (and truly awesome, if you like abstract art) paintings for the Rothko Chapel, posthumously constructed in Houston. Rothko never liked The Upper East Side, too rich for his socialist immigrant tastes. His wife bought the 95th Street house in '59 after he had arrived at the top of the art market and was tired of midtown west apartments in buildings that were, anyway, rapidly being torn down to make way for the expansion of the corporate office building district. Rothko preferred the old 'hood's bohemian, workingish class mix of stage hands, photographers' assistants, under employed actors and the like that he would meet in the bars. He thought uptown bars boring and professional. Anyway, Rothko, in increasingly declining health, (he suffered a stroke in these last years that limited the size of work he could do without much assistance) due to a lifetime of smoking, thinning paints, in addition to personal problems that led to his leaving the townhouse and moving into the sparse, cluttered and dirty studio in the ground floor garage. He was drinking heavily and taking prescription medications and certainly in considerable physical pain when he ended his life by slitting his wrists in the bathroom of the studio in 1970. I love the neighborhood; I grew up there. Mark Rothko did not and I'm sure he'd puke if he knew that the old garage studio was worth millions of dollars. That's the way he thought, at least according to his biography, which I obviously read carefully.
🎉🎉🎉
Art is a great way to launder money. That's why a garbage picture or sculpture goes for hundreds of millions.
You think that hundreds of millions is passed over in bags - you clown.
The Russian Billionaire who paid 186M for one of his paintings, knew it and did it.
so many stairs? no lift?
He mentioned the 'lift' about three times - you muppet.
I didn't listen that long because I was bored.
@@HowardLevin Do you often post blindly... fool?.
@@HowardLevin I don't think I would have admitted that I post blindly... but hey it's the "Muppet Show"
I didn't post blindly. I just didn't see through the entire post because it was so boring.
Lovely channel and property… but is this the famous location where Mark Rothko slashed his wrists and bled to death? I recall the New York Times wrote about it.
Too modern interior!
La seule pays qui m a plu c est la chambre a coucher ،"primary" et la salle de bain.
Would be great if you add Hindi audio also
Oh my god, who writes your scripts??!!
After 2 minutes of this inane stating the obvious waffle I had to switch off.
It’s TV / video, not a podcast - ‘show don’t tell’.
Matt you need to look after you hair! Your hair is thinning… try finasteride