Auctions successful the Hamptons are arsenic uncommon arsenic this home, created arsenic a live/work workplace and residence by the precocious Japanese sculptor Setsuo Ito.

Built successful 1993 and precocious renovated, the 12,000-square-foot dispersed — topped by an unfastened alloy pyramid — sits connected 1 of the highest elevations connected the East End, a fewer miles northbound of Water Mill.

It’s heading to auction Jan. 24 to 30 with a reserve terms of $2.95 cardinal — acold little than its past inquire of $7.99 million. 

The six-bedroom location sits connected 9 acres, with country to build. It’s being sold astatine the auction with an further 6 acres. The existent proprietor besides bought it astatine an auction, spent much than $1 cardinal connected renovations, purchased the adjacent tons — and is present selling them some astatine 984 and 984a Noyac Path, said Sotheby’s listing broker Angela Boyer-Stump.

The spot is perched astatine 1 of the Hamptons’ highest elevations.Harris Allen // Rise Media // 3D Vuz Photography

Its plan traces backmost to the inspiration of a Japanese sculptor.Harris Allen // Rise Media // 3D Vuz Photography

The compound has agelong been known arsenic the location wherever Biggie Smalls changeable the “Juicy” euphony video successful 1994.Courtesy Sotheby’s International Real Estate

Another aerial presumption of the property.Harris Allen // Rise Media // 3D Vuz Photography

The location is besides known for its unusually shaped pool.Harris Allen // Rise Media // 3D Vuz Photography

A presumption of the interior.Harris Allen // Rise Media // 3D Vuz Photography

A backstage 2-mile-long driveway done a achromatic conifer wood overlooking a 300-acre sphere leads to the house, which boasts an unusually shaped pool, a 32-foot-high pyramid and a deck.

The home has a foyer, a surviving room, a gallery, a eating atrium — positive a chef’s room with achromatic solid floors, customized cabinets and an open gas fireplace. There’s besides a gym and a media room. In 1994, it’s besides wherever the precocious rapper Notorious B.I.G. shot the euphony video for his deed azygous “Juicy.” But contempt its hip-hop fame, it has spent caller years connected and disconnected the marketplace without uncovering a buyer.

In 1994, successful an interrogation with the New York Times, Ito said helium erstwhile climbed a hilltop to ticker a sunset and loved the spot truthful overmuch — it was besides cleanable to ticker the moonrise — that helium bought 15 acres to physique his imagination home. That was backmost successful 1984.

The creator named the location Camp Benno for his favored collie, who reportedly died 2 days earlier operation began. “We request a location for structure and comfort,” he told the Times. “But I travel to the Hamptons to bask the countryside. So I built a location that would propulsion you backmost outside.”

It took 10 years to physique the structure, arsenic the Southampton readying committee kept turning down his plans — truthful helium spent the archetypal fewer summers camping retired connected the hill. “The last plan was a operation of aesthetic and governmental considerations,” helium told the Times. “The pyramid, the excavation and the maestro suite are each 40-by-40-foot cleanable squares aligned on the north-south axis.”

As for the pyramid, helium added: “Structurally, it is the strongest shape. That is wherefore it belongs connected apical of the hill. But erstwhile you enclose a pyramid it is not absorbing to me. It becomes cliché. So I near it open.”