At 1200 Fifth, the tenants included Walter Hochschild, an industrialist whose penthouse had an outdoor dance floor.
The three-story building, whose penthouse was removed, reopened in fall 2002 with wider hallways and windows allowing more natural light into larger classrooms.
"This is a good way to handle the market," said Gregg Wolpert, a co-president of Stahl, the developer of the Laureate, the Upper West Side condo whose penthouse went for $3,000 a square foot.
"There have been times when the drums have been annoying, but it's a cultural thing," said Professor Wise, whose penthouse apartment overlooking the park is filled with African-inspired prints and sculpture.
And then there were the most exclusive properties of all, like 1020 Fifth Avenue, whose penthouse was still in the hands of the family of its original buyer when it went on the market for $46.5 million the day before Lehman collapsed.
The 53-story sculptural residence, whose penthouse was listed for $33 million, is designed from a visual and functional perspective (rather than decorative)—from slabs to columns to protective glass which deflects the intense south Florida heat.
The future looks even brighter for Klyukin, with a sharp change in his life style, the transition from banking and real estate now include plans to build a stunning new skyscraper in Monte-Carlo (whose penthouse designer Roberto Cavalli has already committed to buying).
Nothing else at The Mark symbolizes this reputation as the world's most boldly lavish hotel more than it's two-story, dual full-floor penthouse suite, currently ranked the largest and most expensive in the world according to the luxury lifestyle magazine Elite Traveler (besting Geneva's Hotel President Wilson at #2 whose penthouse has hosted the likes of Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev).
"Whose penthouse do you mean?" "Mr. Smith's".
