Chateau Ridge: The Late Vince Camuto’s Greenwich Estate

The property was listed at auction this summer, but is still on the market for $7,600,000 by Shelly Tretter Lynch of  Compass Greenwich.

Greenwich has become a hot spot for fashionable New Yorkers fleeing Manhattan, and what’s more in vogue than a Normandy-style château?

Built in 1927, Chateau Ridge (also known as Ream Chateau) had been left derelict until it was purchased in the 1980s by the late Nine West founder and shoe designer Vince Camuto, who left the city to move to the country with his wife, Louise Camuto, and their son Phillip.

Owner Louise Camuto stated “I’ve been here for a long time, and we have loved living here. It’s a year-round house that you enjoy both in the summer and in the winter… It’s a perfect place to raise a family.”

The chateau was meticulously restored under Jim Xhema (who famously worked on Tommy Hilfiger’s Greenwich home), and was lavishly furnished with art and antiques amassed around the world by the owners and avid collectors.

Set on a private 4.66 acre lot, the property features a beautiful courtyard and Renaissance-inspired gardens with box tree mazes and a stone pergola.

A resort-style pool complex includes a pool house, hot tub and grotto.

The property also includes a tennis court with a stone tennis house, and a seperate 2 bedroom guest house.  Inside the residence there are 11 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms.

Standout features include a Great Room with 40 foot ceilings and 91-foot beams across, imported antique panelling and custom flooring.

The master suite features antique library panelling by 17th-century English master carver Grinling Gibbons, as well as a jaw-dropping hall of mirrors dressing room with ornate gold-leaf plasterwork.

There’s also a Constellation Room with 40-foot high domed ceilings, complete with fibre-optic stars designed to replicate the night sky on Camuto’s birth date, June 4, 1936.

All photos belong to the listing agency.