Experience the East Coast’s Most Lavish Estate

In the tradition of New Jersey’s most imaginative properties, the Stone Mansion inspires summer’s easy living with a houseful of modern indulgences.

Ninix 195 stainless-steel loungers by Royal Botania, royalbotania.com. Beach towels, clockwise from top-left: Dix Vagues by Hermès (hanging); Squares by Yves Delorme; Circuit 24 Nomade by Hermès; Exotique by Yves Delorme; Owami by Tabula Rasa; Leopards by Hermès; Squares by Yves Delorme, yvesdelorme.com; Loulan by Tabula Rasa, tabularasa-ny.com; Yachting by Hermès, hermes.com.

Images: Max Zambelli
Market Editor: Monika Eyers
Set Stylist: Jenna Yankun

Dramatically sited on the former Henry Clay Frick estate, along the Hudson River cliffs of historic Alpine, New Jersey, Stone Mansion follows in the lineage of the state’s grandest Gilded Age properties. Homes built for steel magnates and silk mill proprietors, yachtsmen and iron masters. Families with surnames like Guggenheim and Vanderbilt, Cooper and Hewitt. But the Garden State has also been home to epic getaways for wildly creative — some might say, eccentric — minds.

Inventor Thomas Edison devised the phonograph, movie camera, and light bulb from his West Orange work-live compound. Entertainer John Lake Young built an Atlantic City mansion next door to his Million Dollar Amusement Pier. Address? No. 1 Atlantic Ocean. And the heiress Doris Duke used her fortune and freedom to become a foreign correspondent, surfing champion, jazz musician, and acclaimed horticulturist, all from her massive Somerset County “farm,” consisting of 45 buildings, 9 lakes, and 1.5 miles of stone walls.

Hex ebonized-ash and 23K-gold mirror by Alex Drew & No One, alex-drew.com. Les Endiablés crystal vessels by José Lévy for Saint Louis, saint-louis.com. Satin Diabolo Limoges-porcelain vases by Raynaud, raynaud.fr. Antique bronze and crystal girandoles, 1stdibs.com for similar.

Left: 28d handblown-glass lamps by Omer Arbel for Bocci, bocci.ca. Kipling wallpaper in Sous-Bois by Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com. Decanter and glasses, baccarat.com for similar. Right: Ro JH2 lounge chair by Jaime Hayon for Fritz Hansen, fritzhansen.com. Solveig lacquered-steel floor lamp by Avril de Pastre for Ligne Roset, ligne-roset.com. Third Eye black oro marble vessel by Chen Chen and Kai Williams, chen-williams.com. Burning Bright Palette” (2008), acrylic and silkscreen ink on wood, by Faile, faile.net.

It’s in this idiosyncratic tradition that we’ve styled and captured the Stone Mansion, which welcomes big ideas (and expansive guest lists) within its 30,000 square feet. It features a dozen generously proportioned bedrooms, for starters, but also a balconied ballroom, private movie theater, coffered-ceilinged library, and wine cellar ready for 4,000 bottles of inspiration. And should you need fresh air, its six acres ignite the spirit, too, from lawn to pool, pergola to tennis court.

Because, it goes without saying, a budding genius needs room to breathe.

Blade Two floor speakers by KEF, kefdirect.com. Cherrywood, leather, and bronze ping pong table and cherrywood and walnut paddles, all by BDDW, bddw.com. Arch whitewashed and lacquered ash bench by Bower, bowernyc.com. WA5 aluminum, vacuum-tube speaker and headphone amps by Woo Audio, wooaudio.com.

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Offered by Leonard Steinberg, Kimberlee Knecht, and Victoria Shtainer of Compass and Sharon Kurtz of Prominent Property’s Sotheby’s International Realty.