The apartment is not huge—it’s 910 square feet—but every inch has been considered and maximized to its full potential. In the entry, Lewis devised a mirror and leather-wrapped console across a wall that also holds hooks from which Groff, who famously cycles to every Broadway performance, can hang his single-speed Brooklyn Bicycle Co. bike. And in the center of the living area, an unusual banana-frond pendant by Pelle Designs hangs over a 1950s armchair, creating a room within a room. “It’s like a little cocoon where I read scripts, learn my lines, respond to texts,” he says.
In the entry the chandelier is by Apparatus and the artwork above the door is by David LaChapelle.
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His home is such a tailor-made haven that Groff, who is currently in production on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of the musical Octet, admits he has become a design-loving homebody. “That’s the gift and curse of nesting,” he says. “It makes it harder to leave.”