Daphne Guinness $14M Home Listed on Market

Daphne Guinness is eponymous with fashion and style. In fact, this fall the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will devote one of its galleries to about a hundred of Guinness’s most important pieces. But instead of waiting until then for a look inside her life, one could instead buy her fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment that she recently listed for $14M. The floorplan posted by Curbed shows the 4,118-square-foot palace inside the Stanhope has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and a library.

Daphne Guinness is no stranger to this type of grandeur, in fact, this apartment for her was about getting away from it all. According to this article from Architectural Digest, after her divorce she moved into the apartment for its open light and incredible view (the space looks over the Metropolitan Museum and Central Park). She worked with architect Daniel Romualdez to perfect the decor, which he said was inspired by Guiness’s own personal style. The artwork, however, was all her own, and includes works by Dave LaChapelle, Damien Hirst and Nobuyoshi Araki.

The library, which includes a portrait of Guinness by David LaChapelle on the right.

Hall of Mirrors with Louis XVI–style chairs by DeAngelis and photograph by Daido Moriyama

Damien Hirst butterfly painting, Another Amazing Transcendental Experience, and a circa-1950 Jansen palm-tree floor lamp from Maison Gerard.

It’s unclear why she’s moving. Perhaps it has something to do with when she was sued for overflowing her bathtub and drenching her neighbor. It must be hard to part with such a beautiful space that so effortlessly captures the essence of this incredible woman.

Read more at the New Yorker, Curbed, Architectural Digest or Oyster Mag.

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