Pursuits Weekly: A Celebrity ‘Love Shack’ Lists Near Woodstock

Hot on the real estate market: your very own love shack.

Kate Pierson, a founding member of the B-52s, is selling her 6.5-acre wooded compound in the Catskills Mountains near Woodstock, N.Y. The property has been operated as a funky, one-of-a-kind roadside motel, Kate’s Lazy Meadow, since about 2004.

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Pierson filled the rooms with decorations she’d acquired at auctions and during the many ‘tiquin’ runs she’d go on with Fred Schneider [of the B-52s] while on tour. 

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

Although buyers could keep running it as a 10-unit motel, Pierson and her wife, Monica Coleman, had been in it more for the fun than the material gain.

“We’ve turned a profit, but let’s just say it’s a modest profit,” Pierson says. 

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The property could continue to operate as a motel or be transitioned into a family compound.

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

Both have other obligations: They also own two other getaways, Kate’s Lazy Desert in Landers, Calif., and Kate’s Lazy Cabin in Lake Hill, N.Y.—so they’re not selling the name or brand. Coleman is a ceramic artist, and Pierson still actively performs.

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Esopus Creek, which runs along the property line, has “incredible trout fishing,” according to Pierson.

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

“We thought, this is a time to pass the torch to someone who can really use its full potential,” Pierson says, which she believes is as a family compound. “Everyone can have their own space and make their own coffee in the morning, but it’s a place where everyone can gather.”

Listed at $2.2 million, the 13-bedroom, 11-bathroom property comes fully furnished and is a retro ’50s fantasia.

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In total, there are 13 bedrooms and 11 baths.

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

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Each of the units feels self-contained.

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

Rooms are filled with midcentury-modern décor. “Some of it’s high, some is low, some of it is kitschy, some is Charles and Ray Eames,” she says. “And some of it is macramé owls.”

There are also VHS tapes in every room with “cabin in the woods horror movies,” and “each room is so carefully curated, it’s just so sort of perfect,” Pierson says.

“I just shopped ’til I dropped. It was so much fun.”

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The overall aesthetic “is a midcentury-modern fantasy land.”

Photographer: David Coppola for Heather Croner Sotheby’s International Realty

 

In Other Real Estate News 

Drink Smarter This Summer

Canned self-improvement now comes in all kinds of flavors.

According to Olipop, a line of sodas imbued with prebiotics—or dietary fiber that helps gut health—“functional” sodas are “the fastest-growing segment across all beverages, having grown 360% last year,” a year in which traditional versions reported just 9% growth.

Here are five ingredients that blur the line between sugary soda refreshment and health-and-wellness.

The Ingredient: Collagen
The Promise: Hydration, more elastic skin, stronger hair and nails

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SkinTe sparkling tea (from $48 for 12 cans) and Luster & Lum sparkling collagen water ($20 for 12 cans).

Source: Vendors

 

The Ingredient: Reishi mushrooms 
The promise: Boost energy and immunity

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Bonafide Potents Immortality Tonic ($14 for 8 oz.), flavored with coriander, allspice citrus zest, and medicinal roots and bark, and Rowdy Mermaid Adaptonic ($40 for 12 cans​​​​).

Source: Vendors

 

The Ingredient: Probiotics
The Promise: Gut health

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Molson-Coors’s Huzzah seltzer ($19 for 6 cans) and De La Calle Tepache ($47 for 12 cans), a drink of Mexican origin made of lightly fermented pineapple.

Source: Vendors

 

The Ingredient: Prebiotics
The Promise: Gut health and fiber

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Poppi (from $30 for 12 cans) leans on apple cider vinegar, while Olipop ($36 for 12 cans) touts plant fiber from such sources as marshmallow and cassava root, nopal cactus, and Jerusalem artichoke.

Source: Vendors

The Ingredient: Nootropics and adaptogens
The Promise: Better mood and attitude

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Kin Euphorics Lightwave ($27 for 4 cans), an anti-Red Bull of sorts, and Droplet Pretty Happy ($72 for 12 cans) with alkalized water and the adaptogen rhodiola.

Source: Vendors

 

 

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