Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut Estate Lists for $47.5M
Fresh on the market, Tommy Hilfiger’s instagram-worthy Connecticut estate may just break the internet. Built in 1939 for real estate tycoon George V. Paterno, called "Napoleon of the Manhattan Skyscraper Builders".
Tommy and Dee Hilfiger spent 6 years renovating the estate with the help of an all-star team: interior designers Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Cindy Rinfret, landscape designer Miranda Brooks, and architectural firms Andre Tchelistcheff Architects and Xhema Industries all contributed to the effort.
The home was featured in @archdigest Architectural Digest (February, 2017) and honoured with a 2015 Stanford White Award.
The 6 bedroom, 7 bathroom home is spread across 13,344 square feet of lavish living space designed for high living: a theatre room, wine cellar and tasting room, a Gilded Age cocktail bar, and six fireplaces.
The beamed great hall exudes Old World elegance, with a baronial Elizabethan-style staircase ascends along a striking upward in a soaring leaded-glass bay.
Meticulous attention to detail in the carved millwork, plasterwork, decorative painting, wide-board and limestone floors, and fine textile wall coverings to achieve an English country estate aesthetic, with French Gothic touches.
Designed for entertaining, each of the main floor living areas opens out to the engaging outdoor living spaces.
Meticulously restored and maintained, the Trophy Estate provides sweeping views at Greenwich’s highest point, stretching as far as the Manhattan skyline, and Long Island Sound from the expansive great lawn.
The property boasts 4 gardens, inspired by European estates: a fountained rose garden, boxwood knot garden, a water garden with koi pond and a topiary garden completes this backcountry oasis.
There is a greenhouse on the property, a tennis court that doubles as a basketball call, a guest house, a detached four-bay garage, as well as a tea house which has been converted into a security pavilion.
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