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Alexis Stewart Drops The Price Of Her TriBeCa Duplex

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Radio host and Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart is another celebrity slow seller. She's been trying to sell her duplex loft at 27 North Moore Street on and off since 2007 and we've seen prices as high as $12.95 million. Curbed NY reports that the home is now down below the $10 million mark. It is listed at $9.5 million.

There's a lot to love about this home. It has almost 4,000 square feet of interior space and also has an outdoor terrace. The large bright and white living room has a solarium celing. The kitchen includes two SubZero refrigerators and two dishwashers for Martha-Stewart-style entertaining. The three-bedroom home also has grey terrazzo floors, custom-designed wood shelving and integrated built-ins.

Gallery: Alexis Stewart in TriBeCa

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Demi Moore & Martha Stewart Party on Russian Billionaire's Megayacht

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Filed under: Yachts & Sailing, Events, Wealth

Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Martha Stewart made the New Year's scene in St. Barths as guests of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko aboard his Philippe Starck-designed megayacht 'A' (above). The awe-inspiring 390-ft. craft ranks as the 11th largest yacht in the world and cost an estimated $300 million to build. The celebs were in town for oligarch Roman Abramovich's star-studded New Year's Eve bash featuring the Black Eyed Peas at his lavish estate on the island. While on board the yacht Moore strutted around in a barely-there bikini and caught some rays.

She and Kutcher also played around on the vessel's jet skis. The yacht's interior features $40,000 bath faucets, $60,000 stair banisters, and an all-white, 2,583-sq.-ft. master suite wrapped in bulletproof glass and accessed by a silver-plated staircase with a fingerprint scanner at the door. Key decor accents include Baccarat crystal tables, alligator skin and Kudu horn chairs, stingray skin upholstered walls and hand-stitched leather paneling. Filling the A's gas tanks alone costs $500,000 a pop and running costs come to about $20 million a year.

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Martha Stewart To Open Delaware Antiques Show

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Filed under: Decor, Events, Architecture & Design

Martha Stewart will be on hand for the opening night party of the 47th annual Delaware Antiques Show at Wilmington's Chase Center on the Riverfront on November 4. The show runs November 5-7 and will include more than 60 antiques dealers showcasing furniture, rugs, porcelain, silver, and more. The show is organized by Winterthur as a benefit for educational programming at the museum. The Delaware Antiques Show is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country and offers one benefit others can't-- tax-free shopping.

The opening night is a gala event providing early-access shopping for the show's finest items and a chance to win a $2,500 show voucher, courtesy of Freeman's Auctioneers and Appraisers. Sponsor level tickets which get you access to Martha Stewart's talk are $250.

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The Ultimate Guide to Scandinavian Style

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Filed under: Decor, Celebrity Shopping, Books, Architecture & Design

The work of Lars Bolander, one of Sweden's foremost interior designers whose shops in New York and Palm Beach are oases of good taste, is given its due in a beautiful new book from the Vendome Press. Longtime admirer Martha Stewart calls Lars Bolander's Scandinavian Design "A sophisticated volume" and "an in-depth, intelligent, and informative look at the design sensibilities found in Scandinavian domestic furniture and decoration." She notes that "Bolander surveys all of this with his keen eye and finely honed historical knowledge, and the results are breathtaking." The book serves as a practical, idea-filled room-by-room guide to both classic and new looks in Scandinavian design.

Drawn from Bolander's work on estates and houses all over the world for the past few decades and working from the outside in, the book begins with a study of exterior features such as the use of wood in construction, elaborate doorways, and building in harmony with nature. Successive chapters explore entryways, living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, and bedrooms. Both traditional and modern design influences are featured, and sidebars throughout highlight specific design elements such as wood stoves, Danish Modern chairs, lighting, textiles, and more.

Gallery: Lars Bolander's Scandinavian Design

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James Beard Chef Packages On Rue La La

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Filed under: Dining

Food writer and chef James Beard has been gone for years but his food legacy lives on, his name inspiring visions of amazing meals. Private sale shopping website Rue La La has teamed up with James Beard Foundation to offer a trio of "Evenings with Celebrity Chefs" packages. The sale goes live on July 7, 2010 at 11:00 am Eastern Time and will run for 48 hours. After the jump are details of the three James Beard events available for purchase at exclusive Rue La La rates:

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Chef Emeril Wants To Sell You Steaks

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Filed under: Dining

Emeril Lagasse isn't just a chef, he's an empire. The chef, who already has his own line of spices and pans has partnered with Allen Brothers Steaks to launch Emeril's Red Marble Steaks. The products will be available for purchase online beginning May 1st at RedMarbleSteaks.com. The Emeril-branded steaks will be high-quality cuts of beef that include filet mignon, bone-in rib eyes, classic Porterhouse, New York strips, rib roasts, tenderloins, and more. It's not clear from the press release what makes these steaks different from other Allen Brothers steaks.

Allen Brothers Steaks was founded in 1893 in Chicago's Union Stockyards area and is the country's leading source of USDA Prime. Thee brand can be found in many steakhouses around the country. Emeril Lagasse joined the Martha Stewart family of brands in 2008 when Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia acquired the assets related to Emeril's media and merchandising business, including television programming, cookbooks and his licensed kitchen and food products so this is a good deal for Miss Martha too.

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Martha Stewart and Sandals Resorts International Team to Offer Destination Weddings

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Looking for a tropical destination for the wedding of a lifetime? Look no further than one of the 18 different Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts located throughout the Carribbean. Sandals Resorts International, which hosts as many as 13,000 weddings each year, is collaborating with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to offer six different wedding themes. On January 1, Sandal's began offering Sandals Weddings by Martha Stewart, featuring coordinated color palettes, beautifully designed wedding décor, complimentary bouquets, invitations, cakes and favors, along with à la carte items, creating a memorable experience to suit a couple's unique preferences. "We have a fundamental mind set that the wedding day has to be perfect and flawless," says Adam Stewart, chief executive of Sandals Resorts International. "We are constantly trying to find new and innovative ways to deliver that experience for the bride and groom. That road led us to Martha Stewart, who is a visionary. " Watch this video to hear more from Adam Stewart and see a Sandals Wedding by Martha Stewart firsthand.

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Martha Stewarts Offers Thanksgiving Turkeys

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Filed under: Dining, Celebrity Shopping

The Martha Stewart

branding train is rolling on with a new food line just in time for Thanksgiving. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.has partnered with The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. to introduce a new Martha Stewart-branded food line that includes poultry from Plainville Farms, baking mixes from Arrowhead Mills and dried pastas from DeBoles. The Martha Stewart-branded products will launch with a line of fresh and frozen vegetarian-fed and antibiotic-free turkeys from Hain Pure Protein's Plainville Farms in time for Thanksgiving 2009. In a press release Stewart said, " I'm delighted to be offering consumers antibiotic-free, vegetarian-fed turkeys that are moist, tender, and absolutely delicious." The Martha Stewart website already has a place where you can order the bird online for $69.99 for a 12-pound bird. You can also download Martha's Turkey 101 guide should you need additional help. Add in some Martha table linens and Martha Stewart-branded wine and it's a very Martha Thanksgiving.

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Portrait of a Maine Island

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Books

Many top drawer people in the Northeast spend summers in Maine's preppy enclaves. Photographer Sarah C. Butler's new book Portrait of a Maine Island is a love letter to one such locale, Northeast Harbor.

In this never-before-seen collection, Butler showcases her extraordinary art portraits of Northeast Harbor's local inhabitants, architecture and stunning land and seascape, as viewed from properties like this 2006 Estate of the Day.

60 people and places are brought to life through original photographs that "convey and identify what it is that makes Maine culture so distinctive." Martha Stewart, who has an estate on nearby Mount Desert Island, often uses it as inspiration.

Butler doesn't just focus on the well-heeled summer residents however. A post-mistress, mechanic, carpenter, lobsterman, librarian and artists are all included, as well as a visual journey through the area's coves and rocky necks.

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Martha Stewart Partners With Crane & Co.

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Filed under: Celebrity Design

This era of email and texting is a tough time for the stationery business but those who seek a more elegant form of communication have a big name on their side, Martha Stewart. The Berkshire Eagle reports that just one week after Crane & Co. announced layoffs in its stationery division, it has forged a partnership with Martha Stewart Omnimedia. The new Martha Stewart Stationery Weddings Collection will be released this spring. The line will be sold through Crane stationers, online and through select retailers. It's a bit of a return to her roots for Stewart who was once featured in a Crane stationery advertising campaign during her modeling career and also perhaps a sign that Stewart is looking to steer her brand back into a more refined direction.

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Is Martha Stewart Working On A Luxury Magazine?

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Donald Trump has one, now Martha Stewart is supposedly working on a big glossy luxury magazine. Advertising Age reports that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia may be working on a oversized luxury title. While the magazine industry in general remains in a state of change, heavy and huge luxury titles with big glossy ads remain attractive because they offer advertisers a way to find the luxury consumer. In these cases the income of each reader is more of a lure than how many readers the magazine attracts. It also gives the advertiser ample space to showcase their products in a magazine that is meant to be more for looking than for reading. Trump's title has a 12-inch-by-10-inch cover and it is rumored that Martha's luxury magazine would be an oversized title like W or Cigar Aficionado.

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Martha Stewart Enters the Wine Business

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Filed under: Wine, Celebrity Shopping

Honestly I'm surprised it took her this long but Martha Stewart is finally getting into the wine business. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. has announced a partnership with E.&J. Gallo Winery to create wines known as the "Martha Stewart Vintage." The first launch of 15,000 cases includes three wines: a 2006 Sonoma County Chardonnay, 2005 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvingon and 2006 Sonoma County Merlot. The wines will be available in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Phoenix and Portland starting in January and will sell for around $15.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

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From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Supermodel Gisele is renting out her West Village penthouse loft for $29,000 per month. The home has a hot tub on the private roof deck. Check it out at the listing here.
-- Fairchild Corp. Chairman Jeffrey Steiner has sold his Fifth Avenue co-op apartment for his last asking price of $15 million.
--Martha Stewart is looking to buy a house in Manhattan rather than move into the $35 million worth of apartments she bought at the Richard Meier-designed 165 Charles St. building.

From the Real Estalker:
--Suge Knight's gated estate in Malibu, shown above, is listed at $6.2 million, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. Check out the listing here, the home is a bit abandoned and in need of someone with deep pockets to restore it to glory.
--Donn and Vicky Gunvalson from The Real Housewives of Orange County have put their Coto de Caza
home on the market for $3.75 million. You may remember this five-bedroom home from the show where the expansive swimming pool and grotto were featured. The listing is here.
--Salma Hayek and and Francois-Henri Pinault have bought the home belonging to Kelsey and Camille Grammer in Bel Air, California.
--A three-fer from Fred Savage. He has sold his home on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles for $2,249,022, bought a house in Hancock Park for $3,050,030, and has flipped a Hollywood Hills home for $3.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Alain Pinon, who co-owns and co-founded the AKS Salons on Fifth and Madison avenues, has paid $1.585 million for his eighth apartment on the Upper West Side. He has already flipped three apartments and four other spreads nearby on Central Park West.
--Men's Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko has paid $3.795 million for a full-floor, three-bedroom unit at the new 744 Greenwich Street condominium.
-- Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the daughter of one Senator and the wife of another has purchased a $2.175 million Manhattan apartment overlooking a very fancy MoMA sculpture garden.
--Peter Peterson, senior chairman and co-founder of the newly public Blackstone Group, who recently bought David Geffen's duplex penthouse at 810 Fifth Avenue for $37.5 million is looking to sell his 11th-floor apartment at River House likely for somewhere between $9 and $10 million. The apartment was used to film a saucy amateur video filmed there, which promoted his daughter Holly's summer novel The Manny.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Former NFL quarterback Cade McNown has paid $2,925,000 to purchase a house in Hancock Park and has sold his house in the Hollywood Hills for $3,499,000.
--Damon Dash has sold his 5,875-square-foot, Spanish villa-style house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $3,600,000.
--Actor Billy Bob Thornton has bought a four-bedroom house in Malibu that was listed at $2,410,000.

From the Real Estate Journal's Private Properties:
--The family of John J. Donovan Sr., whose feud made headlines last year, is asking $6 million for a three-bedroom home on 3.5 acres on the North Shore of Massachusetts and $5.9 million for a home on 1.8 acres across the street. This will be our double dip estate of the day later today.

From Radar:
Vidal Sassoon has put a Richard Neutra-designed house on Mulholland Drive on the market for $19.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Joey McIntyre has sold his house in Venice, California for close to $2.9 million and bought in Hancock Park for nearly $4.7 million.
--Wilmer Valderrama has put his Tarzana compound on the market at $2.25 million. The home has five bedrooms, a pool, pool house and a gym.
--Jenilee Harrison, who played Jamie Ewing on "Dallas" and Cindy Snow on "Three's Company," and her chiropractor husband, Bruce Oppenheim, have sold their Sherman Oaks property for $1.1 million.
--Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplays for the "Scream" series of films and the TV series "Dawson's Creek," has purchased a late-'40s, modern-style house in Palm Springs for $1.5 million.
--The Palm Desert home of actor William Boyd, who played Hopalong Cassidy, was purchased at an auction June 2 for $467,500.

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Martha Stewart, Space Caterer

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Filed under: Dining, Celebrity Shopping

If you are rich, and we mean really rich, not only do you get to be one of the first people to be a space tourist, you can get Martha Stewart to cater your space meal. CNet reports that Charles Simonyi, a software pioneer who will be the fifth tourist in space, is a friend of Stewart's and he has convinced her to create a gourmet menu to feed the crew at the International Space Station. The space food is a far cry from Tang and freeze-dried ice cream. The menu includes roasted quail, duck breast confit with capers, shredded chicken parmentier, apple fondant pieces, rice pudding with candied fruit, and semolina cake with dried apricots. Simonyi will take the meal up to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA spacecraft on April 7 and the food will be prepared by Alain Ducasse's consulting and training center, ADF.

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Martha Stewart's Farmhouse for Sale

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Filed under: Estates

Martha Stewart has put her colonial-style farmhouse estate, Turkey Hill Farm, in Westport, Connecticut on the market. The beautiful home is just over 3,100-sq. feet and is situated on 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds (would you expect anything less from Martha Stewart?). The property also features a large barn and a greenhouse. The 3-bedroom, 2-bath house was originally built in 1805. It was maintained in excellent condition and features central air, a full walk-out basement and a heated pool. The asking price is $8,995,000.

More pictures after the jump, though there are none from the interior of the house - surprising, given that Martha is an amazing decorator.

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