by Spencer Peterson
The Wall Street Journal reports that three-time Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is looking for a buyer to pony up $2.999M for his two-bedroom Manhattan apartment. From a low level in a West Village condo building, the 1,750-square-foot abode boasts straight-up Hudson River views, and has a sort-of commensurate seafaring theme, the work of legendary interior designerGeoffrey Bradfield, who previously prettied up Beverly Hills' Twin Ponds estate (and is still looking to unload his Upper East Side townhouse). A "yacht on the Mediterranean" is what Bradfield had in mind for the place, according toa 2010 Architectural Digest piece—"as if we were on a boat but not rocking" is how Stone put it, calling Bradfield "a man after my own heart"—and in practice, this plays out in "yachtlike floors of cherry" and a nautical rope motif adorning the living room rug, window-seat cushions, and shades. At first glance, this could easily be mistaken for a Fourth of July theme, given the red, white, and blue color scheme, but the huge communist propaganda-inspired painting that covers one wall kind of puts a damper on that.
A native New Yorker who mainly resides in L.A., Stone paid $2.2M for the unit in 2010, after renting it while shooting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, his limp attempt at reviving pre-DiCaprio Wall Street wolf Gordon Gecko, the antihero played by Michael Douglas in 1987's Wall Street. The building, 1 Morton Square, was built in the mid-2000s, and has housed such celebrity tenants as the Olsen twins, Mike Myers, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Daniel Radcliffe (andnearly Severus Snape, raising and then dashing hopes for a Harry Potter pairing for the ages). Anyway, Stone's place has 11-foot ceilings, and is currently decked out rather self-referentially with posters of his own work, as well as tripod floor lamps that look straight out of a film set. According to theJournal, Stone decided to sell because he needs more space, and there are already "several potential buyers interested in the property."
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