{"id":256706,"date":"2026-06-05T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256706\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:27:15","slug":"jonathan-groff-wanted-a-sofa-he-could-canoodle-on-in-his-manhattan-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256706\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Groff Wanted A Sofa He Could Canoodle On in his Manhattan Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The apartment is not huge\u2014it\u2019s 910 square feet\u2014but 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. \u201cIt\u2019s like a little cocoon where I read scripts, learn my lines, respond to texts,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/p>\n

In the entry the chandelier is by Apparatus<\/a> and the artwork above the door is by David LaChapelle.<\/p>\n

KELLY MARSHALL,Kelly Marshall<\/p>\n

His home is such a tailor-made haven that Groff, who is currently in production on Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s film adaptation of the musical Octet, admits he has become a design-loving homebody. \u201cThat\u2019s the gift and curse of nesting,\u201d he says. \u201cIt makes it harder to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The apartment is not huge\u2014it\u2019s 910 square feet\u2014but every inch has been considered and maximized to its full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2408,15519,15517,75,84,83,9,24,63,15518],"class_list":["post-256706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-celebrity","tag-domestic-home-tour","tag-home-tour","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-web-exclusive-home-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}