Hey AD, welcome to our house.
What do you think, Wynn?
[chuckles]
Come on in.
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This is the entryway,
it’s the first thing you see when you come in,
and we wanted it to feel warm and inviting.
We brought this new apartment to life
with the help of Zoë Feldman
and her wonderful team at Zoë Feldman Design.
Jason and I are obviously artists,
and we know so many fantastic artists
and have loved finding a mixture
of artists that we love and didn’t know
and kinda mixing them in with friends of ours.
For example, this is by an artist
who lived in my parents’ apartment building
when I was really little,
and told my parents that I was gonna be an artist,
and then sent me a piece of art about that size
in a Dutch Master’s cigar box.
Every year, twice a year since I was born.
His name is Don Buchta,
and he often used torn up paper to make a lot of his art.
I actually named my production company
Scrap Paper Pictures after him.
We actually found these two architectural designs
rolled up with a bunch of others inside of the closet
when we first got the apartment.
And they’re actually this apartment,
a former architecture firm was laying them out.
And we think they’re from maybe the 70s,
but I just love them.
We found this at a dispensary and we liked it,
so we hit the gallery wall.
[chuckling]
[gentle music]
This is my living room.
We love to have people over.
We love to entertain, love to have friends come visit.
And so, we wanted a space
where a lot of people could gather and get comfy.
So, very grateful
that Jason is not a man who’s afraid of pink.
And we just talked about this space.
We love the light in here, and wanted
to let the room feel light and bright and welcoming,
and then wanted something that drew your eye.
Jason and a buddy of his
run a company called, Looks Like a Great Time,
and they made hats and T-shirts and bags,
and they decided to try to make
a sculpture out of their hats.
So, this is anything you wanted to be really, it’s a bowl,
it looks Like a Great Time.
And it is a great time, so thanks Jason for that one.
We knew that we wanted a game table,
and that it was gonna kind of be
a central part of this room.
It’s the first thing you see when you come in.
And so, we wanted something that felt special but simple,
especially something that goes
in front of these beautiful windows.
And Zoë and her team found this beautiful table.
Got a little light ’cause you need to see what you’re doing
when you’re kicking someone’s at cards.
There’s nothing that makes us feel better
than having everyone we love around
pulling up random pieces of furniture,
playing some games, watching a movie, listening to music.
We were kind of looking for the perfect thing
to go above the fireplace.
And a couple years ago, Jason and I took a trip to Italy,
and we had just recently gotten cameras that we loved.
And so, we were both taking pictures
of the scene on this beach,
because mostly we thought he was hilarious
and also had some concerns about his wellbeing.
But we later found ourselves
fighting over who actually took this picture.
We have no idea, we have no idea who the photo credit is,
it’s definitely me, [whispering]
but it’s one of those where I feel
like it’s a little bit like Where’s Waldo?
The more you look at it, the funnier it gets.
Like, I have questions, Dolce Vita, you know?
Is this a McDonald’s blanket?
I think it is, and so much more.
There was a period where I moved 11 times in 12 years,
and I felt like I never had a place that felt like home.
And so, it was really important to me
that this felt like a place I could land,
a place I felt at home in.
And so, I think this is our final form.
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When Jason and I moved into our first apartment together,
he was running a theater company
called Strangemen & Company.
And we had all these big white walls,
they were like very small,
but they felt big to us at the time.
Walls that we wanted to put something up on,
but we were very early in our careers.
And a company was breaking down a set
and just let us walk off
with this big yellow thing from their set.
And we’ve actually taken it
from apartment to apartment to apartment
every place we’ve ever lived since.
It’s sort of a little piece of where we came from,
a little piece of our history.
And this is the phone.
I wanted a landline, everybody was confused.
Our contractor kept trying to take the phone out.
I just feel like I’ve been in New York a long time,
I’ve been here through some emergencies.
If you lose power, I want a landline.
Anyways, I’m very glad that it’s here.
We got some snacks in jars,
you know, some Doritos in a jar.
There’s something about jars for food
that scratches like an itch in my brain.
Everything has a place, you know?
This is generally where we eat breakfast, cereal, eggs,
all the good stuff.
These are actually two of my favorite pieces
from an artist we recently discovered.
I just love how soft they feel in the space.
And this is the kitchen.
We went back and forth on the color of the kitchen
for a really long time.
Our original idea was to do kind of a plumb color,
but we’re so obsessed with green
and we couldn’t get away from it.
This is Jeffrey, he keeps the cookies.
And sometimes, Winston’s treats, it depends,
depends on how we’re feeling.
He has lived with Jason
in every apartment he’s ever lived in.
The black-and-white floor isn’t original to the kitchen,
but there was something about it
that felt kind of original to this space,
like kind of a throwback.
And just love the way it felt like it grounded the space.
I’ve always loved, and so has Jason, a black-and-white tile.
And so, it felt like it really pulled
this whole kitchen together.
This beautiful tile was a Zoë suggestion.
We were looking for something
that would just give a little bit
of an element of surprise to this space.
I love it, it feels
like the English countryside or something.
I’m half British, and something about this tile
always felt like a little bit of my other home.
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There’s a little bedroom off the kitchen
that we call the boat room.
Because in order to still have access to the closet,
we created a contraption that made it
so you could open the closet over the bed like a boat.
I love the stripe, the silk stripe over the day bed.
And I love the nook it’s in, it just feels really cozy.
There is a shower in there,
there is a toilet, and there is a sink.
World’s smallest sink, world’s smallest shower,
but maybe the world’s most beautifully designed bathroom,
thanks to Zoë.
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This is the dining room slash office area.
And this was actually originally one room
and we were so tempted to keep it.
A, it felt like kind of a waste of space,
and also we felt like we wouldn’t use it.
We split the room, we were a little concerned
about cutting off the light with this bookshelf.
And so, ultimately,
we decided to keep the back room light and bright.
This was actually up until very shortly
before we finished this project.
This was gonna be a really fun striped wallpaper
that we ended up actually putting
in the hallway by the elevator instead.
And at the very last minute,
the bookshelves had been painted
this beautiful preference red, I believe it’s called.
It’s my preference.
So sorry. [laughs]
And then we decided
that maybe we should just drench the whole room in it.
And it really brought the whole space to life.
It lets you see the books.
You know, we’ve been collecting books for years
in our old house.
We just had books kind of stacked all over the place
because we didn’t know what to do with them,
and now we have these beautiful shelves to display them.
Even though it’s a dining room,
we still wanted it like the rest of the house
to feel really lived in and welcoming and relaxed.
And I feel like it does just that.
[bright upbeat music]
This is my office.
Never thought I would have an office job,
but I do now have, I run a production company.
And so, I do, actually spend time
sitting at a desk working on a computer.
We wanted the space to feel light and bright.
Gonna need to take zooms in here,
needed to be able to separate it from the rest of the house,
but also wanted the light to be able to travel through.
I’m so obsessed with this beautiful piece.
Jason’s cousin, Lauren Pierce made for us,
I had asked her, you know, if she would mind
making a piece for us,
and she asked what we wanted it to be of.
Talked a little bit about scrap-paper pictures
and she incorporated all of this beautiful torn paper.
And this piece really makes this whole room come alive.
There’s a picture that was taken
by our fantastic set photographer on Maisel
in one of our subway sets,
a black and white that I just thought was so beautiful.
And so, went to figure out a place to put that
that wasn’t like so obvious and is really just for me
and nobody else has to look at my face all the time
elsewhere in the house.
[bright energetic music]
I have kind of a love affair with stripes,
and this green is one of my favorite colors.
And so, shout out to the green stripes
on the way to the bedroom.
[bright upbeat music]
It was really important to me to have a space
that felt really peaceful and calm and quiet,
and we’re so lucky
that this room gets really beautiful light.
And so, wanted to figure out a way
to bounce the light around the room.
I would’ve been really afraid, I think, to make a,
a pink bedroom and especially this beautiful coral color.
But I would’ve been really nervous
to put that in a space like this.
And Zoë and her team were really encouraging,
helped us find the perfect pink.
We fell in love with this floral pattern.
And obviously so in love
that we decided to use it all over this room.
I love this window seat so much,
and loved the the repetition of it throughout the room.
And so, we found the stripe, we found the floral fabric,
and then we’re looking for some ways
to keep the room from feeling too vintage.
And so, this piece that had a really dark background,
the black felt like it grounded the room.
And I just love these ladies, love their heels.
And then this piece over here is by my friend’s mom,
Moya Aiken, is her name,
and just fell so in love with this piece, she’s so talented.
This is a piece by a wonderful artist named Gigi Collins.
And similarly, it felt like the more geometric shapes,
the colors just kind of helped ground this room a little bit
and modernize it, same with this beautiful black lamp.
Gimme a high five.
Good boy. [chuckling]
Good boy. [chuckling]
Next to the living room,
this is probably my second-favorite room in the house.
Such a nice place to pee and shower.
Can’t ask for much more than that.
We really wanted originally to keep the floors,
but there were some cracks in them
and it just was gonna be hard to save.
And so, wanted to figure out how to keep the feeling,
which felt like kind of an homage to the original space.
That’s where the lacquered brass came in.
And over time, this should just get a little bit darker,
a little bit more lived in.
We went to our first stoneyard, which was so much fun.
We got to look at all these beautiful slabs of stone
and couldn’t believe that they come outta the earth.
And we settled on this,
I believe it’s a marble, Rosa Aurora.
Just loved the little pink tones inside of it
that felt like it connected to the primary space.
And then they used
some of that pink stone also inside the shower
to cut a little insert here
where we can put our shampoo, conditioner, and soap.
[bright music]
The guest room, I wanted it to be a place that felt fun
and maybe different from a space
that you might stay in in your own house.
Have some fun art in there, fun wallpaper.
I’m so obsessed with the green floor in the bathroom.
This kind of turquoisey green pebble-looking floor.
The guest bedroom is also where I put all the things I stole
from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel set.
So, the rug in there
is actually the rug that was in Abe and Rose’s dining room.
Moishe’s desk is also in the guest room.
You wouldn’t know it came from the show,
but I know it came from the show.
That was such a special time in my life,
and so it’s nice to be able to incorporate
some of the pieces into this apartment.
[soft music]
Well, thanks for coming over.
See you soon, I hope.
See, bye, Wynn.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
[chuckling] [bright upbeat music]