Clothier Barrie Blue’s NYC ‘boathouse’ asks $2.4M

Come sail away — to Chelsea.

There, the under-the-radar dressmaker and author Barrie Blue — aka Barrie Denn — has listed his “boathouse” at 217 W. 14th St. for $1.25 million. Blue additionally owns the adjoining one-bedroom residence, which is on the market for $1.15 million. The properties may be purchased together for $2.4 million.

The 2-bedroom residence was designed with a sailboat theme in thoughts — suppose a number of portholes, a hand-painted “state room” mural and Artwork Deco stained-glass doorways that open to a walk-in closet. To maximise area, the sleeping quarters are two loft areas with skylights and a “captain’s room” that results in a personal backyard. The kitchen even options classic dials as handles.

Blue as soon as labored as a stringer for the Herald Tribune in Paris and India, the place he took up meditation, based on reviews.

That’s the place, round half a century in the past, he additionally turned impressed to create a line of “meditation clothes,” Kensington Blue, which was worn by George Harrison and Cat Stevens.

Blue went on to change into a ghost designer, going behind the scenes for manufacturers like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger; he was additionally the previous inventive director of Coogi, the Australian clothes model.

Today, Blue is consulting and dealing on initiatives, dividing his time between Florida and his residence upstate — a 200-year-old former horse barn on 4.5 acres. 

The itemizing brokers of the 2 Chelsea flats are Sara Schwartz and Maddi Durrett of Corcoran.