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The Two-Billion-Dollar Building: How 15 Central Park West Changed Real Estate
Two brothers bought a full block beside Central Park, hired an architect the avant-garde despised, and wrapped the whole thing in old-fashioned limestone. It sold out for two billion dollars and rewrote the rules.
The Island Richard Branson Bought for $180,000
A Caribbean island was listed at six million dollars. A broke young entrepreneur offered a fraction of it as a stunt, got laughed out of the room, and a year later owned it for one hundred and eighty thousand.
How Three Gallerists in Basel Built the World's Most Important Art Fair
In 1970, three dealers in a small Swiss city started a modest fair simply called 'Art.' It grew into a global empire that now decides, more than any museum or critic, what the art world pays attention to.
Monaco Is Building Land in the Sea: The Story of Mareterra
The most expensive real estate on earth has a problem: there is almost none of it, and no more can be made. Monaco's answer is audacious. If you cannot find more land, build it in the Mediterranean.
The $832 Million Estate That Gave It All Away
When the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller came to auction in 2018, it broke every record for a single collection. The most remarkable thing was not the total. It was that every last dollar went to charity.
The 500-Million-Dollar Fantasy: How Bel Air's 'The One' Collapsed
It had a moat, a nightclub, and a glass jogging track wrapped around the outside. It was going to sell for half a billion dollars. Instead it went bankrupt and sold for a quarter of that, a monument to ambition unmoored from reality.
The Dealer Who Paid His Artists Before They Sold a Thing: Leo Castelli
He put unknown painters on a salary whether or not their work sold, and in doing so he built the careers of Johns, Warhol, and Lichtenstein, and moved the whole capital of the art world from Paris to New York.