Dressing in designer threads doesn’t maintain a candle to proudly owning a luxurious model’s former international headquarters.
A historic townhouse that when served as style home Gucci’s primary workplace has hit the market. It asks $66 million and can be out there to lease for a jaw-dropping $48,000 every week.
The palatial 12,621-square-foot house is positioned within the tony Mayfair neighborhood in London’s West Finish and boasts a double storage, a cinema, a sunroom, an indoor swimming pool, a marble-lined plunge pool, a steam room, a sauna and even “4 safe vaults.” It’s the final remaining non-public townhouse on Grafton Road, according to the listing, which is held by Beauchamp Estates.
The Neoclassical-style constructing was accomplished in 1772 and, earlier than the luxurious model moved in, was house to at least one Lord Chancellor Brougham, who entertained the likes of Queen Victoria and the primary Duke of Wellington there. Gucci moved there in 1998 when, following the deadly taking pictures of Maurizio Gucci by a hitman hired by his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani Gucci, within the foyer of the corporate’s Milan headquarters, head honchos determined the enterprise wanted a brand new primary workplace. So that they moved to the Grafton Road house, which is close to Gucci’s Bond Road retailer.
Texan designer Tom Ford, who was named artistic director of the corporate in 1994, moved into the gold-leaf-ceilinged first-floor drawing room — and it was there that in 2000 he “hosted and mesmerized clothier Alexander McQueen and persuaded him to affix Gucci group,” and in addition the place he hosted Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Many different names and historic style world occasions passed off within the constructing till 2010 when former Gucci CEO Robert Polet relocated the corporate’s HQ to Switzerland and bought the London mansion.
Along with its trendy facilities — most of that are positioned within the basement degree — the four-bedroom, seven-bathroom house additionally options loads of interval particulars, together with the first-floor eating room’s carved wooden chimneypiece, authentic Georgian fireplaces, parquet flooring and ornate plasterwork.
