If you want to live like Hugh Jackman, you better earn like a triple-threat A-lister. The stage and screen veteran’s recently listed triplex condo in New York’s West Village not only carries an elephantine price tag of almost $40 million, a few clicks and clacks on the abacus shows monthly taxes and common charges pile up to a heart-stopping $734,000 annually.
Currently starring opposite Broadway royal Sutton Foster in a revival of the 1957 musical “The Music Man,” The “X-Men” franchise star and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, have owned the airy condo for fourteen years. According to tax records as well as the New York Post, the first to turn up the listing, the Furness-Jackmans paid $21 million for the sui generis condo in late 2008. The listing is held by Deborah Grubman, David Adler and Paul Albano, all of The Corcoran Group.
A flamboyant sculptural spiral staircase, part of it encased in circular wall of glass, connects the three light-filled floors of the roughly 11,000 square foot condo that is wrapped almost entirely in floor-to-ceiling glass with five en-suite bedrooms and five full and two half-baths. There is a trio of small balconies, one on each floor, and uninterrupted views up, down and across the Hudson River to the New Jersey skyline.
The pristine, nearly all-white interior architecture was handled for the previous owner by Richard Meier, also the building’s architect, who smartly divvied up the living, entertaining and private spaces into distinct zones. The main living and entertaining spaces, on the triplex’s middle 9th floor, comprise a vast, open-plan space that forms a U-shape around a carefully arranged central core that houses coat closets, a powder room, and a walk-in wine cellar, along with a catering kitchen and pantry area. A grand piano anchors one end of the double-height living area, while a massive, double-sided fireplace that appears to float magically above the floor divides the spacious dining area from…