Herbert N. Strauss House

Bound in natural linen over boards, blocked in foil on spine and front cover. [insert page count] pp., [insert height × width in cm]. [insert number of plates] color plates, offset-printed in four colors plus matte varnish on Galaxi Keramik 170 gsm, gloss-coated. Text pages on Munken Pure Rough 120 gsm. Endpapers in Gmund Colors Matt 90. Dust jacket in uncoated stencil stock, Gmund Bütten 110 gsm, letterpress-printed in two colors. Typeset by hand in [insert typeface] and [insert secondary typeface]. Composed and printed in [insert city]. Bound by hand.

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9 East 71st Street, Lenox Hill. Seven-story limestone townhouse, 1933, by Trowbridge & Livingston for Herbert N. Straus of R.H. Macy & Co. Neo-French Renaissance — the idiom of Vanderbilt, Frick, Duke, already retrospective by 1933.

Standard Beaux-Arts plan: controlled threshold, piano nobile above, private quarters on upper floors, service circulation in a parallel stack. Checkerboard marble entry hall, oak-paneled reception rooms, Persian carpets, leather-bound library.

Title to NES Group (Leslie H. Wexner, Chairman, The Limited Inc.) in 1989. Transferred 1998 to Maple Inc., a US Virgin Islands corporation, sole beneficial owner Jeffrey E. Epstein. Recorded consideration: $0. Estimated fair market value: ~$20 million.

Additions within the inherited plan: framed inscribed photographs of William J. Clinton, Donald J. Trump, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ehud Barak, Leon Black, Lawrence Summers, Marvin Minsky, Joichi Ito, along sightlines from entry hall to reception rooms. Parsing Bill (Ryan-Kleid, 2012), Clinton in blue dress and red heels, ground-floor hallway. Custom chess set, figures modeled on household staff. Taxidermied tiger and poodle, entry hall and music room. Audio and video recording devices, recovered FBI search 6 July 2019, in bathroom fixtures and bedroom ceilings.

A portion of proceeds will be donated to a registered charity supporting survivors of sexual abuse.