The world-renowned John Barrett Salon is taking over the Midtown mansion owned by one of the world’s richest men, where the world’s most beautiful woman once lived.
The John Barrett Salon will maintain a presence in Bergdorf Goodman but we’ve now learned it has leased the entire 16,000- square-foot mansion at 10 W. 56th St., steps off Fifth Ave.
Owned by multibillionaire Carlos Slim , who purchased it in 2011 for $15.5 million, the mansion designed by Warren and Wetmore was home to Elizabeth Taylor and third husband Michael Todd during their brief marriage before he died in a plane crash in 1958.
More recently, it has been home to a series of pop-up shops. It is on a block that boasts Henri Bendel, Norma Kamali, and the Peninsula and Chambers hotels.
Roxana Girand of MHP Real Estate represented the ownership. CBRE represented John Barrett in its lease. The rent will be $1.5 million per year.
According to Jim Hedges, CEO of John Barrett, “This is a beautiful Beaux Arts limestone mansion that will become the most beautiful luxury salon in the country.”
The 9,000-square-foot above-grade interior will include 80 chairs for stylists, make-up artists and many private treatment rooms. In keeping with the block, there will also be a 3,500-square-foot retail area. The six-story interior includes a ballroom and formal garden terrace.
Daniel Romualdez will design the space, just as he is doing for John Barrett’s 54 Bond St. location, which will open this spring, and for the upcoming World Trade Center space — both of which we first revealed.