Exclusive | Fashion designers fabulous loft asking $10.75M has a dog elevator and tables that rise from the floor

Texas-born fashion designer Lela Rose dresses stars from Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Chastain to Anne Hathaway and Mindy Kaling in her gorgeous gowns. She’s also a creative hostess known for throwing extravagant soirees.Now Rose’s magazine-worthy spread in Tribeca, which she shares with her financier husband Brandon Jones and their two kids, is on the market for $10.75 million — and it is a whimsical reflection of her elegant style and love of entertaining.The glam 6,000-square-foot ground loft-like maisonette, which includes subterranean space and skylit homework pods for their kids, comes with five bedrooms and 5.5 baths in a gracious building that dates to 1865. It’s configured like an upside-down triplex with an untraditional layout — and it works.Three skylights and oversize glass windows in the entire rear of the home add light so the space is not dark.The residence also boasts unusual features, like a dog elevator specifically built for a stair-averse canine — and a glass table that drops from the ceiling with a press of a button.
Press another button, and two tables emerge from the floor.All connect to become an extra-long dining table — for those times when you feel like hosting 68 of your closest friends for dinner. The “entertaining floor” is 97 feet long, and the platform part has been used as a fashion runway — and also as a dance floor.Designed by WorkAC Architects in collaboration with Rose and Jones, the home opens from a private street-level entrance to a living room with 16-foot ceilings, “gallery-sized” walls to display art and large storefront windows. The living room leads to a raised bamboo platform with a wet bar, and that’s where the hidden tables can be tapped to appear on command.
There’s also a “restaurant-quality” eat-in chef’s kitchen and a lounge wrapped in felt, along with a media area. Sculptural stairs separate the public area from the bedrooms.Two bedrooms share the upper level with skylig...