He’s designed homes for the tremendous-wealthy — and now, he’s looking for someone just as deep-pocketed to purchase another a person of his have homes.
French-born architect and designer Thierry Despont, who has lent his contact to the houses of Calvin Klein and Bill Gates — as nicely as to the interiors of the tony 220 Central Park South in Manhattan — has shown a different one of his personal really created lairs. This time, in accordance to the Wall Avenue Journal, Despont desires to market a about 34-acre Hamptons estate for $23.5 million.
That is some 7 months immediately after Despont mentioned his just-as-breathtaking 10,000-square-foot townhouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca community for $24.99 million. That inquiring rate has remained regular because its October record date, StreetEasy displays.
It isn’t obvious why Despont is looking to offer off these high-priced properties, and the brokers declined The Post’s ask for for comment on the matter. Either way, whoever gets these homes will obtain their way into homes that have been meticulously preserved.




In the Hamptons, Despont’s house stands in Southampton. — and employed to be the web-site of the first Southampton Driving and Hunt Club, an equestrian facility that dated to the 1920s, the Journal notes. Extra a short while ago, it was the dwelling of the horse-using facility Rosewood Farms. More than the several years, Despont converted it into a home with a guesthouse and a pool household.
Between 2011 and 2013, he put in $8.55 million whole for 3 contiguous parcels — and the residence appears to be out to a 50-acre agricultural reserve.
Despont purchased the roughly 11-acre Rosewood Farms and turned the most important barn into a dwelling approximately 6,000 square feet in sizing. It has 6 bedrooms — and two wings inside of, which were being previously horse stalls, are now visitor rooms. In the meantime, a further barn on the land grew to become a pool residence future to an infinity pool — and Despont transformed a third a single into a garage for 4 vehicles.






The listing images clearly show an specialist level of detail went into the do the job. In the most important property, a cozy living area has beamed ceilings and a fire — and nearby, a totally wooden-clad den has its have hearth and added area for lounging. The charming state-design kitchen has lots of storage house, although a single bed room will come fully enveloped in a glossy Halston-esque purple.
Somewhere else about the house, there’s a sauna and a health and fitness center, other pictures show.
On leading of the Rosewood Farms acquire, Despont also bought an about 23-acre piece of land as very well as a 50 percent-acre whole lot with a four-bedroom property, the latter of which Despont has used as a guesthouse.
Ed Petrie, of Compass, shares the listing with Sotheby’s Intercontinental Realty’s father-and-son Harald and Bruce Grant.