The New York apartment that the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived in for the last five years of his life will house actress Angelina Jolie’s new fashion label.
The property at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s Noho neighborhood will house Jolie Atelier, the brand announced this week, adding that the new tenants “will do their best to respect and honor her artistic legacy with community and creativity.” In an Instagram post.
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The property will be leased to Jolie for long-term commercial use for eight years, according to Meridian Retail Leasing brokers John Roesch and Garret Kelly. Although they don’t disclose the monthly rent for the space, the property was previously listed with an asking price of $51,000 per month in base rent plus $9,000 per month in taxes for at least 10 years.
Jolie plans to preserve the building’s graffiti-covered exterior as a tribute to Basquiat’s early days as an artist known for the SAMO tags and poetic phrases he and Al Diaz created in Lower Manhattan, Meridian brokers have said. CapitalGroup. art news.
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The 6,600 square foot building was once owned by artist Andy Warhol, who leased the space to Basquiat beginning in 1983. Basquiat lived and worked there for five years, until his death at age 27 from an overdose. heroin accident on August 12, 1988. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation installed a plaque on the building in 2016 commemorating Basquiat, stating that the late artist “challenge established notions of high and low art, race and class, while forging a visionary language that defied characterization”.
Before Warhol purchased the building in 1970, the property is believed to have housed a dance hall and a bare-knuckle boxing gym with ties to New York mobsters like Lucky Luciano and Al Capone. More recently, the building was the site of the referral-only Japanese restaurant Bohemian.
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Jolie announced in May the creation of Jolie Atelier, a fashion brand that “will utilize the highest quality vintage hardware and unsold fabric already available” and utilize “a skilled and diverse family of expert tailors, pattern makers and artisans from around the world.” whole world”. world,” she said in an Instagram post. A few weeks later, she launched an online call for tailors living in New York. The label is expected to launch in fall 2023.
Jolie is known to be an art collector, and sold a Winston Churchill painting for a record £8.2million at Christie’s London in 2021.
