Millions might like to live like Calvin Klein with his ultraclean, minimalist aesthetic, and soon they can.
The designer is putting his penthouse office and studio space, which is located at 545 West 25th Street in New York, up for grabs.
The asking price for the turn-key commercial condo in the Chelsea Arts Tower is $3.495 million. With floor-to-ceiling glass walls, sky-high ceilings and polished concrete floors, the unit is true to the designer’s style. Klein first plunked down $4 million for the 18th-floor office and studio space in 2006. It was designed by the well-regarded architect Richard Gluckman and features a first-rate kitchen and a private terrace.
Klein, who has homes in other locales, declined to comment through a spokesperson Tuesday. He sold his namesake business to Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. in 2003 and stepped back from his company the following year.
The location offers sweeping views of the Hudson River and of Hudson Yards. Built in 2006, the 20-story Chelsea Arts Tower is rooted in the Chelsea Gallery District. A crane was reportedly needed to lift the 24-foot metal conference table that adorns the space, Klein’s neighbors in the Chelsea Arts Tower include the Marlborough Gallery and the Flagg Art Foundation among others.
The Chelsea Art Tower entrance.
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Klein’s penthouse had been put on the market before in 2019 for $6.5 million. The move-in space could be used for a family office, art studio, designer or professional firm. (It could also be dressed up with items from the Calvin Klein Home Collection.)
The terrace offers views of Hudson Yards and the Hudson River.
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Through the years, the American designer has had homes in the Hamptons, Miami Beach, Los Angeles and New York City including a few that he has flipped for a hefty payout. In 2021, Klein sold his 8.4-acre oceanfront estate in East Hampton for $85 million, which was considerably more than the $3.6 million that he and his ex-wife Kelly bought it for in 1987 from Pan Am founder Juan Trippe.
Calvin Klein’s Chelsea apartment is on the market.
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The 82-year-old designer once dropped $30 million to tear down a Southampton mansion that he described as “a monstrosity and an embarrassment to the town.” Klein explained in 2011 that he built “a full-scale model of the house that we are building in Southampton on the property of what I thought I wanted so that I could walk through the space. It is very difficult to know proportions and height to get it right. I wasn’t building a house, just a structure.”
