The 11-story facade of 40 Bond Street consists of 27 units, including five "town houses" or triplex apartments entered at ground level with their own backyards and tiny forecourts facing Bond Street.
Above the town houses are 22 loftlike dwellings ranging from 1,269 square feet for a one-bedroom to 3,288 for a four-bedroom. In August 2006 here is what the building looked liked.
The entire facade is being fashioned from curved glass panels manufactured in Barcelona by DFI Licensee, and highly specialized architectural glass producer, CRICURSA. The greenish Coke-bottle curved glass pieces soften the overall effect of the modern geometry.
Schrager believes that true luxury is not merely the ownership of material possessions, but is to be able to do whatever you want whenever you want. 40 Bond allows just that. At $3.5 million for a one-bedroom to $10 million for a triplex it is the least they could do ;-)
After 3 projects in New York in 2006, including the 40 Bond Ian schrager has 5 new projects, 2 in Miami, 2 more in New York and one in Las Vegas.
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