Having shelled out a pinch more than $1.5 million last year for a photogenic micro-compound high above L.A.’s Laurel Canyon, fashion model Hilary Rhoda has now hoisted her longtime loft condo in New York City’s bustling and fashionably funky Astor Place on the block at $2.675 million.
The 5’11” cover model and cat walker, who’s appeared three times in the Sport Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as well as in countless fashion shows and ad campaigns, most notably for the legacy cosmetics conglomerate Estée Lauder, married hot-headed former ice hockey hot shot turned fashionista and wannabe actor Sean Avery more than five years ago. But, for unknown reasons that certainly aren’t this property gossip’s beeswax, tax records show she holds the New York and Los Angeles properties in her name only. Though their marriage has been marked with a fair amount of family strife — Rhoda sued her mother/former manager in 2016, whom she alleged stole a bunch of money from her, and Avery was “slapped with a restraining order” several years ago for harassing his mother-in-law — but the unjustly attractive couple nonetheless welcomed their first child, a boy named Nash, last year.
Rhoda, 33, acquired her light and bright Astor Place pad, a duplex condo on a lower floor of a full-service boutique building, coming up on 14 years ago. Sales records indicate she ponied up $2.077 million for the just-over-1,800-square-foot spread that is newly refurbished and configured with one spacious bedroom and two bathrooms, plus a couple of windowless interior rooms that might well be used as a home office, a dark nook for overnight guests, a serene meditation retreat or, since it’s typically in such short supply in Manhattan, storage.
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Image Credit: StreetEasy The main living space, which contains lounging and dining spaces and the kitchen, expands to 25 feet square with pale, slightly lustered wood floors, high ceilings and vast white walls suitable for showcasing large-scale artworks. The pleasantly proportioned space is dominated by a gigantic arched window set into a whitewashed brick wall.
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Image Credit: StreetEasy Spare and stylishly simple with gleaming white counter tops on carefully crafted white laminate cabinets trimmed in slender strips of wood, and arranged around a generous island with open space to accommodate stools, the kitchen’s only (and somewhat surprising) excess is its mirrored back splash.
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Image Credit: StreetEasy The striking open-tread floating staircase makes a dynamic ascent to the second floor where a huge landing easily serves as a snug sitting room. Closet-style doors slide open to the larger of the loft’s two windowless interior rooms, this one with a column smack in the center of the room that certainly must make it a bit tricky to furnish. (The other cave-like space is downstairs just off the foyer and opposite the guest bath. It, too, has an unfortunate column floating in the middle of the room.)
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Image Credit: StreetEasy Large enough to accommodate a sitting area alongside a 12-foot wall of custom closets, the main bedroom, the only bedroom, really, includes a roomy bathroom where a thick column stands between a pair of wall-mounted sinks with shiny exposed plumbing. The back-to-back shower and tub are dramatically encased in inky black oversized tiles.
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Image Credit: StreetEasy Th floor plan shows the not always ideal locations of the support columns that are sprinkled throughout the condo. The listing is held by Steve Gold at Corcoran.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Concealed behind a street-level two-car garage and a stylish entry gate, Rhoda and Avery’s West Coast home, high above L.A.’s Laurel Canyon, and quietly acquired last fall for a wee more than $1.5 million, is described in marketing materials as a “designer compound” that’s cleverly arranged around a central courtyard with no fewer than three separate living spaces that make it ideal for a work-from-home lifestyle and/or generating some Airbnb income.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The 1,270-square-foot midcentury-minded main residence offers an open floor plan. A vaulted, wood-clad ceiling with hefty exposed rafters adds organic volume to the cozy space that includes a two-sided corner fireplace and wide-plank wood flooring.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Glass sliders open the room to a slender balcony with serene cross-canyon views, and the kitchen is clean lined and refined with gleaming white countertops, taupe-colored cabinetry and up-to-date appliances.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The main house’s two bedrooms are downstairs and share a small hall bathroom jazzed up with a bespoke plywood vanity and a tile-lined shower.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A not-quite-350-square-foot bonus space is privately nipped away below the top two floors of the main house with an exterior entrance. An en suite bath makes the wood-floored room suitable as a home office, nanny suite or yoga retreat.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A pint-sized guest suite tucked beneath the garage includes a compact kitchenette, an itty-bitty dining area and an updated bathroom emblazoned with black and white tiles in the combo tub and shower.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Decking that connects the main house to the guesthouse overlooks a lower courtyard that’s crisscrossed with overhead strands of lights and planted with a fruit tree or two among other lush landscaping.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The property was listed with Jeff Yarbrough at Keller Willams Realty Beverly Hills; Rhoda and Avery were represented by Christopher Pickett of Ernie Carswell & Associates at Douglas Elliman.