The Manhattan home of Italian modernist designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli has hit the market for $6.5 million.
The design duo bought the three-bedroom duplex in an Upper East Side Renaissance revival co-op 40 years ago and decorated the home in keeping with their minimalist design aesthetic, according to The New York Times, which first reported the listing. The home was officially listed on Thursday.
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Massimo Vignelli, who died in 2014 at the age of 83, and Lella Vignelli, who died in 2016 at the age of 82, ran Vignelli Associates and designed some of the most ubiquitous pieces of information design in their adopted home. Their designs included a Metropolitan Transport Authority subway map, which is still used on one section of the agency’s web site, the American Airlines double-A logo and the Bloomingdale’s "brown bag."
Their longtimeapartment spans around 3,900 square feet, including an expansive living room with soaring 19-and-a-half-foot ceilings. Their spartan white walls accentuate the drama of an original double-height leaded window, the living room’s fireplace and the dark oak flooring.
The living room adjoins a library lined with built-in bookshelves and opens into a dining area, where a floor-to-ceiling colorful mural explodes into an otherwisesober room, according to images of the home that accompany the listing with Gabriele Devlin of Sotheby’s International Realty.
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A sculptural staircase leads to the second-floor balcony, which overlooks the dramatic living room. Three bedrooms are on the second level, including a master with a windowed dressing room that could be converted back to an original bedroom, according to the listing agents.
The Vignellis furnished much of the unit in pieces they designed for clients or created as prototypes, according to a spokeswoman for Sotheby’s International Realty. These can be sold to the apartment’s buyer under a separate contract, she confirmed.