Bliss House • Fifth Ave • Grand 1-Bed • No2B

Our Grand 1-Bedroom on E 68th Street between Fifth Avenue & Madison Avenue has soaring 11.5ft ceilings, and is thoughtfully curated, beautifully designed & well-stocked with local goods for stays over 30 days. Look forward to a garden-view apartment in an elevator building, fully equipped with a sizable kitchen, living area with vintage armchairs, spacious bedroom with a comfy Parachute queen bed, a dining area, in-unit washer & dryer, TV & multiple closets, plus Wifi. We can't wait to host you! The space Originally the home of actor Al Pacino purportedly, our Grand One Bedroom apartment, located in the iconic and exclusive Bliss House, has soaring 11.5ft ceilings, several expansive windows casting golden light and and creamy-linen drapes, giving sun-kissed vibes in the living room. The living room overlooks a charming terrace belonging to a neighbor. The interior design captures the splendor of New York in the roaring 1920's with iconic mid-century works by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier. The living area features an exquisite pair of rare Scandinavian high-back lounge chairs newly upholstered in off-white sheepskin with cognac leather buttons imported from Belgium. In addition, the timeless beauty of today’s American and Danish creators including Sarah Sherman Samuel, Athena Calderone, Danielle Siggerud, Sofia Tuffvason, Michelle Aero, Colin King, Jake Arnold and Norm Architects is featured throughout the apartment. And, the well-edited finishes and curated goods in our apartment are sourced from female-founded businesses like Parachute, Backdrop, Ferm Living, and more. While you stay with us, relish in this apartment’s illustrious past. The apartment is located on the second floor in the location of the mansion’s original library. While the house was being constructed in the early 1900s, its owner Jeannette Bliss traveled to Europe in search of period rooms. To properly house her late husband’s extensive book collection she imported a baroque-style room with a 16th century ceiling taken from a Neapolitan palazzo. Three years after her death, her daughter Susan donated Jeannette’s Mary Queen of Scots collection to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The astounding windfall for the library included 113 hand-written manuscripts, 687 printed books, 627 prints and 22 medals. Before Susan died in 1964, she donated etchings by James Whistler to Bowdoin College and by 1965 had given the school the entire library—some 1,200 volumes—including the entire Neapolitan wood-panelled room. Guest access Throughout your stay, enjoy the tranquility and privacy of living in a former Gilded Age mansion turned 1970s boutique apartment building that houses a collection of only thirteen gracious studio to two bedroom apartments. Additionally, enjoy the building's women-run aesthetic spa, So•Vous, available for private appointments. They specialize in luxury facials, Botox, and dermal fillers, and laser skin treatments like Morpheus8. Other things to note Bliss House is a historical gilded age Italianate mansion, which was commissioned by socialite Jeanette Bliss in 1907 and evokes the grandeur of Palladio's architectural masterpieces in Venice. The property was designed in the early 1900s by architects George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge, who specialized in designing social clubs. While the house was being constructed, Jeannette traveled to Europe in search of period rooms. For the third floor of her new home she purchased an 18th century polyhedral mirrored boudoir from the Hôtel De Crillon in Paris. The room had been made for Louis-Marie-Augustin, duc d'Aumont. And, for her salon, Jeanette purchased boiserie originally designed for the Hôtel De Sens in Paris. After Jeannette passed away in 1923, her daughter Susan Bliss would later donate her mother's boudoir to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it exhibited in the Wrightsman Collection, and her library room to Bowdoin College in Maine. After Susan passed away in 1967, the home served as the Clinical Psychologist Center for Marital and Family Therapy, the Bliss mansion was converted to rental apartments, whose former residents included actors including Candice Bergen and Al Pacino. We'll soon be welcoming many new faces to this historical property, where the setting has been edited to celebrate both its female-spirit and cultural heritage.