Karl Templer, who has helped style marketing campaigns for fashion brands including Dior, has put his own fashionable address up for sale.
The property, a red-brick, stoop-fronted townhouse on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, is listed at $14.5 million, according to an ad that appeared last week.
In 2017 Templer paid $8 million for the 21-foot-wide building near Ninth Avenue when it was functioning as a three-family home.
He then undertook a gut renovation, turning the 4,300-square-foot Greek Revival-style site into a single-family dwelling that has four bedrooms, six baths and a sauna-equipped gym, as well as a primary suite with a dressing room and a terrace, based on the listing. But most of the rooms in the 1840s structure that were shown in the ad are empty, suggesting that the British-born Templer is not currently living there.
Selling at the current asking price could allow Templer to nearly double his money, though buyers have proved fickle about some townhouses in recent years. Hollywood producer Scott Rudin sold his West Village property on prized Bank Street late last year only after knocking down the price 25%, for instance.
Similarly, an Upper East Side townhouse with a star turn in the hit HBO show Succession spent about a decade on the market while cycling through five brokerages. It finally found a taker for about $17 million last month.
A stylist for runway shows by Dior, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger who has also staged photo shoots for fashion magazines such as the French and Italian version of Vogue as well as Interview, Templer at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2018 was called out in a news report for allegedly having touched three models inappropriately. He later issued a general apology for disrespectful behavior and lost some accounts at the time but apparently continues to work in the fashion industry today.
Before Templer acquired the Chelsea site, one of its apartments was home for 20 years to South Korean artist Do Ho Suh, who vacated the space after his landlord died and the building was put on the market. But before Suh left, he completed a series of colorful rubbings of the walls of every room and ultimately turned them into the focus of a well-received 2017 art show.
Reached by phone, Matt Lesser, an agent with Leslie J. Garfield & Co. marketing the Chelsea property, had no comment.
