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Uncategorized Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 10:50 am

Steampunk Themed Apartment in Manhattan, Only $1.75 Million

Have you always wanted to live in an alternate-world 1890? Well now you can, sort of, and it’ll only cost you $1.75 million dollars. Filmmaker Jeremy Noritz bought the Manhattan apartment for $1.3 million back in 2006 when, apparently, the apartment still looked like it belonged in 2006. The steampunk renovation has largely been Noritz’s “little” project. The extensive remodling he’s done includes a bedroom designed to look like an exploded blimp and bathrooms hidden behind walls of gears and cogs. It was a personal passion for Noritz, who did his interior design with real reclaimed material, not prefab steampunk toys.

The apartment has been put up for sale not because Noritz has tired of this particular setting and theme, but rather because his job requires him to travel a great deal and he’d like to have someone enjoying the apartment instead of having it sit all by its lonesome. Considering the place was $1.3 million back in 2006, the extravagant price probably doesn’t have that much to do with the steampunk decorations. If you don’t control for rising prices, the steampunk trappings only account for 25% of the new price. If you like the color brown, want to live in NYC, and have a couple million dollars burning a hole in your trust fund, why not?

(via Oddity Central)

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  • http://twitter.com/Dope_Danny Danny Smith

    normally im a sucker for steampunk but honestly that just kinda looks like a shithole apartment.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1225590152 Robert Allaway

    Can someone please spell and grammar check this article. AHHHHH!

  • Anonymous

    Meh. Just looks like a bunch of old junk to me. Put in a commercial kitchen and call it TGIFriday’s.

  • Louis Blackburn

    I…for the love of God….

    As an actual steampunk. You know, the kind that does actually dress up in Victorian wear, attends steampunk-themed events and all tha jazz, this is NOT STEAMPUNK. Sticking random cogs and gears on everything does NOT make something steampunk, it just makes it look like a tacky cash-in appealing to a stereotypical image. This is the same as thinking every Frenchman wears a blue and white shirt, a beret and has a little twiddly moustache. Just…please, stop calling everything with a cog on it steampunk….

  • Alfred Wilkings

    The realtor is gonna have a really hard time moving this one …

  • Anonymous

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  • Justaldybug

    Well I think it’s pretty cool – don’t want to live in NY and nowhere near the funds -but it looks like a pile of fun to me,

  • Anonymous

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  • Marek Smoliński

    Toilet looks like a russian oil station WC

  • Anonymous

    Wow. Such nasty comments about someone’s personal vision of a fictional world. Actually, having his own take on it is is nothing like a Frenchman who does the same thing all the time. You are the fundamentalist claiming only you, Mr. Steampunk, have the true vision. You are the Frenchman in the blue suit and this person has taken the theme and expanded it. Steam punk is all about using what is available and is very much not about sticking to the rules and staying in the box. 

  • Anonymous

    You do it. 

  • sandyvc has a point, quit your bitching, its an apartment…I get people have interests, but at the end of the day steampunk amounts to nothing of actual value, but then again, neither does my love of Batman. Dont be such a dick.

  • Itaragazza

    It’s not!  It was years of meticulous purchasing of old/vintage/antique items and thoughtful planning.  Jeremy is a good friend of mine and I’ve been to his amazing place many times.  I never call it an apartment because it is a work of art.  You would appreciate it in real life, I guarantee it!

  • Anonymous

    Fair enough. Good on you for sticking up for a friend.

  • Louis Blackburn

    So by that logic if I were to buy the most expensive paints and canvas I could paint the Mona Lisa? Time and money doesn’t equate to quality.

  • vince

    Is it still for sale?

  • Anonymous

    (I’m sorry, I thought I replied to you earlier. If this is a duplicate, my apologies.) Fair enough. Good on you for sticking up for a friend.

  • Lauren_cormier12

    it looks pretty ugly to me

  • thecleaner

    How does he keep it clean