Designer?s dazzling ?clock house? wants $3.6M outside NYC
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Location: Palisades, New York
Price: $3,600,000
A dazzling home known as the Clock House is on the market in Palisades, New York, a hamlet formerly known as Snedens Landing just 20 miles outside of Manhattan. The residence of noted designer Ernest de la Torre, the 1957-built Georgian has been dressed to the nines and combines classic and contemporary touches that are magazine-ready.
The symmetrical 3,200-square-foot house features a hip roof with a decorative roof balustrade and is flanked by two lower gabled structures. A charming European style clock protrudes from the central roof, giving the home its name.
Inside, a dramatic double-height living room takes center stage, where a two-story wall of steel casement windows frame views of 30-foot trees and gorgeous gardens. Elegant details abound, like the Georgian marble fireplace, black Indian sandstone parquet de Versailles stone floors, and hand-troweled plaster walls with floating cloud reliefs. Two balconies on the upper floor looks down into this space.
In contrast to the classic living room, the eat-in kitchen boasts a more modern look. Old wooden beams from a 19th-century Pennsylvania barn presides over sleek counters with petrified wooden inlays and geometric Cuban til...
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