DO WEST: Norma Kamali rents at 165 Charles. (
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HIGH LINE, HIGH LIFE: A unit at 456 W. 19th St. is on the market for $4.25 million. (Lorenzo Ciniglio/Freelance)
Fashion queen Norma Kamali’s passion for good design extends to real estate.
Kamali, whose clothing designs include the popular “sleeping-bag coat,” has snapped up a glassy Richard Meier-designed rental at 165 Charles St. that was on the market for just four days.
The West Village residence, which was listed for $25,000 a month, is 2,500 square feet with floor-to-ceiling windows and three bedrooms, including a study that was converted. There are also three bathrooms, an open kitchen/dining/living area, a 150-square-foot terrace and views including the Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty.
Listing brokers Bill Kowalczuk and Brett Compton at Town Residential declined to comment.
Sand songs
Beyoncé loved Sandcastle — the Bridgehampton mansion she rented with Jay-Z for four weeks this summer — so much that she recorded songs at the 31,000-square-foot Hamptons house on 11 acres. And guests including close friends Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow hung out at the house, as did musician Sia.
Now that Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s $400,000 August rental has ended, developer Joe Farrell and his wife Kristen are back in the Halsey Lane house.
On Saturday, they will host a private party for Kristen’s uncle, JD Messinger, to celebrate his new interactive e-book, “11 Days in May.”
Sandcastle is currently for sale at $43.5 million. We hear that a Middle Eastern prince offered to pay $250,000 to rent it for Labor Day weekend, but the offer was turned down.
The house includes three floors plus a “recreation pavilion.” Inside, there’s a 40-foot living room with two fireplaces. Outside, there’s a 60-foot pool, a spa and a sunken tennis court
Bikini peek
Looks like selling pricey bathing suits — teeny pieces of fabric for hundreds of dollars — is paying off for swimwear designer Lisa Marie Fernandez.
Our spies spotted her apartment hunting in Chelsea, where she was scoping out a $4.25 million, three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom duplex at 456 W. 19th St.
The condo includes 2,069 interior square feet, plus a private terrace overlooking the High Line if Fernandez ever wants to get some sun in one of her suits. The eco-friendly residence also comes with 20-foot-high energy-efficient windows and a water-filtration system.
Listing brokers Ryan Serhant and Nick Jabbour of Nest Seekers International declined to comment.
Residents in the LEED-certified building include adman Brandon Ralph of Code and Theory. The development features a garden and storage space for each of the 22 duplex homes designed by architect/developer Cary Tamarkin.
Moore for the money
A big unit at the high-profile Atalanta building at 25 North Moore St. has hit the market. The seventh-floor, 2,907-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom unit is listed for $6 million. The sellers are investment banking advisory firm executive Michael Burton and indie filmmaker Melissa Hammel. Broker Tristan Harper of Prudential Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
The TriBeCa building, once a cheese warehouse, was converted to luxury condos in 2000. A duplex that troubled hip-hop mogul Damon Dash lost to foreclosure in 2010 was just sold for $7.25 million in July. Other former residents include Google engineer Craig Nevill-Manning, who sold his unit for $11.2 million last year.
We hear . . .
That Gianni Russo, a Frank Sinatra pal who played Carlo Rizzi in “The Godfather,” recently attended a party at Sinatra’s former party pad on East 72nd Street, which is on the market for $7.7 million. Russo, who’s been at many Rat Pack swanky soirees in the posh penthouse, belted out “My Way” much to the delight of partygoers and host Jason Haber, CEO of Rubicon Property. . . . That brokers Ryan Serhant of Nest Seekers International and Oren Alexander of Prudential Douglas Elliman will be among “New York’s most notable businessmen” strutting their stuff at Nolcha Fashion Week’s Richard Smith Pret a Porter show on Sept. 12 at Pier 59.