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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 10/10/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Le Belvedere, a Los Angeles mansion that originally listed for $85 million has sold for $50 million.

Gallery: $85 Million in Bel Air

--The Malibu, California home of the late philanthropist Nancy M. Daly, the ex-wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, has sold for more than $40 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Robert Burns, the found of the Regent International hotel group and his wife Janice have bought 2 East 70th Street for $13.5 million
--Yerim Sow, a Senagalese telecom mogul has sold his three-bedroom apartment for $19 million.
--Bernard Ruiz-Picasso has purchased an Astor Place penthouse at 439 Lafayette Street for $7.2 million.
--Neil and Nancy Fire Breslau have sold their penthouse at 111 Central Park North. The couple had bought the apartment for $4.975 million with the intent of flipping it but ended up selling it for $4.525 million.
--Cary Coltun, a senior vice president at megabuilders Bovis Lend Lease, has just bought a 2,000-square-foot condo duplex with his wife Michelle for $3.1 million.
--The $12 million purchaser of Bob and Courtney Novogratz's revamped Nolita townhouse at 5 Centre Market Place is Gregory Soros, son of of one of the world's richest men, George Soros.
--Maura Mandt, who has produced the Espy Awards shows for ESPN just bought a co-op at 50 East 10th Street for $1.15 million.
--Actor Mark Linn-Baker, who was on the show "Perfect Strangers" recently sold his three-bedroom apartment at 17 West 71st Street for $2.85 million.

From the NY Post:
--Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones bought a brick, center-hall Colonial mansion in Bedford, New York for $5.25 million.
-- "Real Housewives of New York" star Jill Zarin and her husband Bobby toured a $3.9 million four-bedroom condo at the Rushmore development on Riverside Boulevard. The Zarins are currently living at 401 E. 60th St. in a three-bedroom, 1,956-square-foot apartment which was on the market last year but didn't sell.

Gallery: A Real Housewife In New York City

--Retail broker Robert Futterman of RKF just closed on a $6.6 million penthouse at the Hudson Lofts condo building at 345 W. 13th St.
--Katy Perry and Lady Gaga might be New York City neighbors in TriBeCa. Perry and fiancé Russell Brand recently bought a $2.7 million penthouse duplex on North Moore Street in TriBeCa, and Lady Gaga, who's been on an extensive downtown apartment search, just visited a $14.95 million TriBeCa penthouse at 33 Vestry St.

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Rookwood Pottery Collection Up For Auction

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Filed under: Decor, Auctions, Art

The collection of noted Los Angeles philanthropist Nancy M. Daly heads to auction on April 20 at Bonhams Los Angeles. Daly died last year at the age of 68 but left behind a legacy of involvement in children and family issues as well as an impressive collection of Rookwood pottery. Rookwood pottery is often considered the first American pottery. it began in 1880 and was founded by Maria Longworth Nichols in Ohio.

To trace the history of Rookwood is to travel through a story of art and craft as America came into its own as a leader in the arts world. The first crystalline glaze developed in the U.S., the tiger's eye glaze was created accidentally at Rookwood in 1884. Collectors prize designs by decorators including Arthur Conant, William P. McDonald, Carl Schmidt, Kataro Shirayamadani and Albert Valentien, all part of Daly's collection. Rookwood spans a wide variety of collecting price ranges from several hundred dollars to as high as $50,000 for prized older pieces.

The piece shown at right is a large award-winning Tiger's Eye Glaze Swimming Fish Vase, decorated by Albert Valentien in rich dark red tones. It is estimated at $30,000-50,000. Other pieces in the auction include a Tiffany Studios FavrileGlass and Bronze Lotus Lamp estimated at $40,000-60,000 and a selection of vividly colored Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre pieces.

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