Linda Dano has the pied a terre on the market with an asking price of $1,675,000. The former soap star turned talk show hostess, author and design authority is selling her lovely home on New York City's West End Avenue. The apartment is a one bedroom, just 1,100 square feet but it's beautifully turned out in a cozy yet glamorous style. Dano decorated the home's interiors, but her husband, an advertising executive who died in 2004, did the reconstruction. Dano has written several style guides and knows what she's doing when it comes to decorating.Dano and her late husband, advertising executive Frank Attardi, purchased the penthouse in 2002 for around a million and spent another million or two in updates making the $1.675 million pricetag seem positively modest.
Stepping into the Upper West Side penthouse apartment of the multi-careered Linda Dano is kind of like delving into a magician's bag of tricks. It's full of surprises.
What seems to be an entrance to a hallway leading to another wing turns out to be a strategically placed mirror. The fireplace complete with weather-beaten logs and hissing flames is actually fake, with glass logs and a lit can of Sterno tucked underneath. Then there are the "solid" ends of cabinets, which turn out to be hidden doors that open to secret storage.
While the living room feels very contemporary with white furniture (covered in Sunbrella, a washable fabric) and a modern, hand-blown glass chandelier there are several antique touches, too. Like the 19th-century ceramic rooster on the coffee table.The bedroom is elegant, with Ralph Lauren fabric lining the walls to make the room soundproof. More Ralph Lauren: a huge armoire that, in order to get it into the apartment, had to be dismantled, delivered in sections and then put together again.
