A Peek Inside The Saitowitz Designed Home At 2555 Union Street
October 21, 2011
A Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects design, a Cow Hollow location, and a $9,250,000 price tag. Even if you can’t afford it, we know you’ll want to take a peek inside 2555 Union.
The tone for which is set by the 8 foot by 6 foot anodized aluminum pivoting front door.
And yes, that’s a Neto in the background and there’s plenty of other art throughout to see.
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what’s with the steel toilet??
the blue bath is really cool.
of course for $9M+ I would expect a bidet or two…
cool design.
but WAY overpriced
will be lucky to get $5 million
Those stainless steel toilets mark a strange intersection of high-end mimimalist residential design and california state prison design standards.
Although I like clean design like this myself, I know it opens itself up to parody when you realize they are specifying products right out catalogs intended for the designers of prisons and mental hospitals.
exactly – they want $5m – so they price it at $10m
who lives there now? The guys from Tron?
Always curious about this home. Pricing doesn’t make sense. $6 to 7 seems closer to reality. But this is essentially new construction. Current tax assessed at $3.2
Wow. This is some pretty nice real estate porn, for those who like it hard and cold.
It’s not anywhere close to my taste, but certainly some high end finishes. Is the exterior new? It looks pretty dated to me, maybe late 80s, early 90s aesthetic on the outside, and not even a particularly original take on it.
Very few houses say F-you to the street quite as well as this house. Might as well grow some vertical poison oak on that wall while they’re at it.
I bet the owner wears a Nehru jacket.
Does anyone know the history of this house. I have a TRI statement from 4/89 for 2555 Union with floor plans on the reverse side. “Newly constructed with quality and taste. This traditional home has approximately 5000 square feet.” Asking $1,795k. I believe it looked similar to the house on the facing left side. I believe the two were built at the same time. This house sold in 11/93 for $1650k. Who bought it, the people who tore is down and built this “Tin Can” Residence?
Its a pretty place though is photo #30 the back yard? Where the heck does one play a proper game of Jarts?
I would buy it just so I could stalk Winona Ryder across the street 😉
Turin: no kidding. If I were a neighbor I’d be sorely tempted to build a “spite wall”– just a featureless concrete wall in front of the house. For “security”.
Very nice finishing inside….and good use of glass and light…but thats one ugly exterior…
Boy that concrete front wall sure warms up the block, don’t it?
Awful Truly awful. Like a gas station restroom. Just awful.
The bathroom looks like a caltrans rest stop on I-5 between Shasta and the Oregon Border.
Just remember don’t sit down on the steel toilet on a cold night.
The front garage area is just butt ugly
Occupy Saitowitz.
If I ever get to build a beach house, I know who I’m going to use, but he’s going to have to drop the stainless steel toilets.
Just hideous. It may illicit some “ooohs and aaahs” from architectural buffs, but I can’t imagine why anyone would pay dime one to live in a place like this.
F*%k you, says the house
I have my steel toilets
And no room for Jarts
Winona Ryder (perk)
While I love the cold, never-been-lived-in look, even THIS is way too cold for me. Brrrrr! Stainless-steel toilets? I hope they come equipped with seat warmers!
the bidets flush with liquid nitrogen – for that sophisticated piece of a**
House History:
In the early 80’s it was a vacant lot. There was a stairway that climbed up from the street and other remnants of a house that had once occupied the site. In the late 80’s developer John McInernery subdivided it into two lots and built two speculative houses. The side by side houses were designed by architect Nancy Sheinholtz and were nearly identical. The current owners of 2555 Union acquired that house in 1993 and about a decade later began major alterations with Saitowitz.
Stainless steel toilet? Just like Bernie Madoff’s – that is, after he went to prison.
Is this Easter island or San Fracisco? I think my life is actually a little worse off for having viewed this house.
You’d think that streets raped Saitowitz’s family or something by the way he shows his hate toward it with his God awful architecture.
If you click on the “art throughout to see” button it takes you to a SF Chronicle article that says the owner “served as her own interior designer” with the help of a “design consultant” (not Saitowitz). The result to me, a usual fan of Saitowitz, is rather boring and does not show Saitowitz’s usual skill.
Who wants to bet they got a divorce and that’s why the place is on the market? Can you imagine having a relationship in that place!
The list price for 2555 Union Street has just been reduced $300,000, now asking $8,950,000.
The list price for 2555 Union Street has just been reduced a million dollars (11 percent), now asking $7,950,000.
I have been surprised by the number of price cuts at the upper end of the market recently, places are still selling but feels like the market has really slowed down.
I wouldn’t read much into the high end chops. I think agents in this market are over estimating the growth / activity in the 2-4.5M range and wrongly applying it to the high end. This is a nice house but I think it was overpriced; and still a little high. The two houses on Divis near Pacific are both overpriced (Herbst Manor and Kirks house). The Jackson Street house that came on at $15 was way too high (although its in contract after big price breaks). A bunch of other houses fall into this category as well. Pretty much anything north of 7M. 2555 cutting its price is smart. But I wouldn’t wait much longer. I suspect this would have sold had it hit the market at this price.
The market does seem to be slowing a bit but we are also heading into a traditionally slower period. And there is still a lot of activity but the pace feels a bit off, I agree.
They buyers are there and the money is there, but I think people are waiting on the perfect houses. 2430 Vallejo was the perfect house, hence the 2 million over asking. 2841 Vallejo also went fast. The courtyard on that place was to die for. Overpriced, flawed homes and poor agents choices are keeping a few big homes on the market. The two (older) homes on Pacific west of Divis have little chance of selling, ditto 2505 Divis. As for this house, I just don’t know who the buyer would be, if one hasn’t emerged in a year.
I’m also a little surprised by the flood of Victorians in D7. It’s like a dozen people all decided to dump them at the same time.
I’ve always considered the fall and winter to be the best RE shopping season. Of course you have places that have been sitting through spring and summer due to a flaw in the product, but you have decent buys that were just overpriced or very poorly timed. Sellers stuck that way didn’t sell either because they were not realistic or just out of bad luck. In any case, the higher the price, the harder the match-making and the harder the pricing.
Fall and Winter are the best shopping season. They are not the best selling season. 🙂
D7 has a lot of odd properties for sale right now. The good market has flushed a few homes out there I think. A few are selling well so hard to blame anyone for trying. I do think some of the sales happening now would not fare will with a sub 5 year hold, which is always a bad idea generally.
I am fond of 3040 Pacific just not at $6M. Curious why 3377 Pacific isn’t moving. I agree it’s a touch high (not so much after the recent cut) but what a nice home.
If they staged it with Jarts(TM) in the backyard, it would move.
Didn’t they film an episode of The Prisoner there??
Oh wait, nope I was mistaken. I hear that Ross will have the Sheriff’s office acquire it for “overflow” of Bryant facility.
Me bad boy, but “I am not a number…”
*ding *ding *ding We have a buyer! And likely an “at asking” sale.. lol
Seems savvy buyers at the high end are making some “low ball’ offers and getting the deal done. Smart. This one is not “firm” as of yet. Should be interesting to see.
Sold for 7.95.. “at asking”
Back at $10.5