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The nice room on this 1968 house takes up most of a hexagonal wing. The excessive clerestory home windows afford privateness and an opportunity to show artwork, and so they’re typical of different Marcel Robins properties.
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The developer Marcel Robins was greatest identified for his long-running collaboration with the architect Harry Wenning. They spent the mid-Nineteen Sixties constructing Robinwood, a novel Westchester sprawl of warm, barn-inspired post-and-beam properties that was named to the Nationwide Registry. Then there’s 57 Holly Place, which can be Robins’s strangest house.
Constructed ten minutes away in Briarcliff in 1968, the six-bedroom home has the duo’s trademark wooden and glass, open ground plan, and clerestory home windows. However not like these different properties, 57 is organized in a collection of 4 hexagons. This was on the request of the proprietor, whose household would favor to stay non-public, and who has spent 54 years filling the odd angles of their odd honeycomb-shaped home.
One enters by way of the smallest honeycomb — a hexagon with travertine flooring and a excessive, hexagonal cedar ceiling. Hook a proper and also you’ll end up within the subsequent hexagon, constructed as an leisure wing. It’s been divvied up like a pizza reduce six methods. Three slices make up a fantastic room with a eating and dwelling space whose excessive home windows search for into the bushes out entrance and whose wood-lined ceiling incorporates a dramatic hexagonal skylight. A fourth triangle is the house workplace, paneled in honey-colored wooden. And a fifth triangle is the household room, a hangout house with a fire and sliding glass doorways that give method to the yard, the place a concrete and brick patio is paved in — you guessed it — hexagons, which result in a pool. The sixth triangle of this leisure wing is the kitchen. Stroll by way of it, and also you attain one other hexagon dedicated to the extra utilitarian capabilities of the house: a two-car storage, laundry room, pantry, rec room, and visitor room. If you happen to enter the house and head the opposite method, you’ll end up in a hexagon of bedrooms.
The house additionally has 16 closets and, due to the hexagonal form, they’re largely deep and oddly formed. “A few of these closets are scrumptious,” says agent Nancy Beard, who has the itemizing with agent Sharon Bodnar Briskman. “Like Narnia.”
The unique home-owner lately handed away, and it’s the primary time the house has ever been in the marketplace. (Although it’s been seen to the general public earlier than — in was used as Josh Brolin’s home within the 2007 Ridley Scott movie American Gangster.)
As Briskman and Beard have proven the place, they are saying they’ve observed a really particular perk of its weird structure. They will take separate purchasers into separate wings and exhibit how their voices don’t carry over — a significant promoting level at the moment, Briskman says. “In COVID, everyone was determined for workplace house. ‘The place might be my workplace? The place will I Zoom from?’ And this affords all of that,” she says. “I feel that’s very uncommon in a house to don’t have any sense of what different persons are as much as. What labored in 1968 actually is working in at the moment’s post-COVID market, too.”
The house is about again on a cul-de-sac that sees little road visitors however occurs to be in an accessible space — minutes from the native prepare at Scarborough, and fewer than quarter-hour to the specific cease at Tarrytown. Different properties on the block are from the identical period. 87 Holly Place, which went up in 1969, was additionally constructed by Robins.
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The entryway is the house’s smallest hexagon, made grand with excessive ceilings lined in cedar planks and travertine flooring. It had a cameo within the 2007 Ridley Scott movie American Gangster, taking part in the house of a unclean cop assumed to have purchased it together with his ill-gotten money.
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To the fitting of the entryway, the good room is constructed for a household to lounge in. The ground is tiled in travertine and cross-sections of wooden. Robins was identified for leaving pure supplies uncovered.
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The curtains by the eating nook are unique to the house. An purchaser could make a proposal on any of the furnishings, although the household has claimed a number of items.
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The clerestory home windows are a Robins signature, which additionally seem within the homes he constructed with architect Harry Wenning that make up the neighborhood Robinwood.
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The skylight within the nice room.
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The nice room defines a wing of the home, dedicated to household actions. Doorways result in a examine and a household room. Previous them, sliding glass doorways result in a pool exterior.
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The examine, with built-in cabinets and wooden paneling.
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Six rooms throughout the one-story house have doorways that open into the yard, a type of open indoor-outdoor dwelling that was forward of its time in 1968.
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The household room has a working stone fire and connects to the patio exterior — excellent for barbecues or huge events that spill exterior.
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Within the leisure wing, a kitchen has a lot of room and retro wallpaper.
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Off the entryway, a corridor results in one other hexagonal wing. The doorways result in 5 bedrooms.
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The first bed room with hanging lights which are possible unique to the house.
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Every bed room has a novel form with closets and bogs tucked into the odd angles.
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A bed room. Be aware the customized curtains, patterned to match the wallpaper.
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The present proprietor has been utilizing one of many bedrooms as a house workplace.
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“The entire wallpaper within the bogs are so quintessentially mid-century fashionable. It’s similar to a time capsule in that method,” says Sharon Bodnar Briskman, who has the itemizing with Nancy Beard. “They’re excellent.”
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57 Holly Place sits on one acre of land, designed by panorama architect Armand Benedek.
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The again patio carries the hexagon theme outdoor.
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The pool, surprisingly, isn’t hexagonal. “It’s type of a free type,” says Beard.
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