Longtime high-profile interior designer John Robert Wiltgen and his husband, Steven Osher, are trying to sell their recently renovated, two-bedroom condominium on the 16th floor of a building on Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville for $1.09 million.
Wiltgen, who runs Chicago-based John Robert Wiltgen Design, has provided interior designs for numerous houses and apartments and he has drawn a fair amount of media attention over the years, including appearing on NBC’s “Open House TV” and in many design magazines.
In Streeterville, Wiltgen and Osher paid $580,000 in 2019 for the 16th-floor unit and proceeded with a gut rehab of the condo. The unit now has 2-1/2 bathrooms, new electric service, new plumbing, a new air handler, and more than 1,400 square feet of imported Calacatta Vecchia Italian porcelain tiles, which were installed atop a sound barrier.
Other features include a living room with a wall of windows, custom crown moldings, new baseboards, new door casings, new door hardware, 85 halogen low-voltage recessed lights and a primary bedroom with Masland cut-pile wall-to-wall carpeting, a wool-upholstered accent wall, motorized roller shades and a wall of room-darkening Ultrasuede draperies. The adjoining primary bath has a mosaic-patterned marble floor, statuary white marble walls and a seven-foot-long vanity with a quartz top.
The condo’s kitchen has custom cabinetry, quartz countertops, a walk-in pantry, Bosch appliances and a $10,000 chandelier in a tray ceiling.
In a statement, Wiltgen and Osher, who are selling because they are moving to Palm Springs, California, full-time, said one purpose behind the gut rehab was to realign the flow of the unit.
“We walled up the opening between the living room and second bedroom,” they said in a statement. “We aligned the walls in the entry to make it more formal. We made the walk-in pantry larger so it aligned with the opposite wall in the living room. We modified the layouts of the primary bathroom and walk-in closet. These changes made an enormous difference in the way the space feels. On top of that, all the built-ins provide storage for everything. There is plenty of room to be organized, which we love.”
The condo also is being listed for $1.29 million with all furniture included. It had been publicly listed in 2020 and 2021 for just under $1.2 million and then just under $1.1 million, and it’s now for sale in real estate agents’ private listing network.
“In a time of furniture order backlogs, the option to buy a full furnished apartment from an award-winning interior designer that designed the apartment for himself makes the buyer’s move as smooth as possible,” listing agent Rafael Murillo of Compass told Elite Street. “The buyer doesn’t have to pay an interior designer to pick things out and then wait for it all to be delivered. All you have to do is bring your bags and start enjoying your new lavish apartment.”
The condo had a $9,398 property tax bill in the 2020 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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