Hi, AD. Welcome to my New York City home.<\/p>\n
Come on in.<\/p>\n
Watch your step.<\/p>\n
[upbeat music]<\/p>\n
We were so lucky to find this apartment.<\/p>\n
I think this is one of the most<\/p>\n
beautiful apartments in New York.<\/p>\n
The building was built in the ’20s<\/p>\n
and was originally a hotel.<\/p>\n
We are on the roof of this building.<\/p>\n
We actually have several terraces,<\/p>\n
and we share a terrace with our very close friends,<\/p>\n
which is kind of amazing.<\/p>\n
If you look out here,<\/p>\n
you see we have like a little herb garden<\/p>\n
that we planted for our use<\/p>\n
and for our neighbor’s use as well.<\/p>\n
I love New York.<\/p>\n
This is the first time in my life that I’ve lived up high.<\/p>\n
I lived in a townhouse for almost 25 years, I guess.<\/p>\n
And so I was really used to sort of street-level living,<\/p>\n
and this is completely different.<\/p>\n
You can see the city all around you. There’s so much life.<\/p>\n
You see people.<\/p>\n
There’s a guy on his balcony over there, right there.<\/p>\n
It’s a wonderful way to experience the life of the city.<\/p>\n
I just love it here.<\/p>\n
[upbeat music]<\/p>\n
These chairs I bought in Paris in 1995.<\/p>\n
I love them. They’ve been in every house that I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to part with them.<\/p>\n
Person who sold them to me in Paris<\/p>\n
said they might be Frank.<\/p>\n
I doubt it.<\/p>\n
If they were Frank,<\/p>\n
I don’t think I could have afforded them.<\/p>\n
Okay, this I’m really proud of because this is Ikea.<\/p>\n
I needed a piece where I could have my dishes<\/p>\n
because we don’t have a lot of storage in here.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about having something built and I found this<\/p>\n
and then I put it together<\/p>\n
and I was like, Oh my gosh, the color is perfect.<\/p>\n
I like the industrial quality it has.<\/p>\n
And it ended up kind of going with everything.<\/p>\n
This piece is so sweet and it was designed to hold eggs.<\/p>\n
I guess you’re gonna have a lot of eggs on your countertop<\/p>\n
or you could put like deviled eggs in it.<\/p>\n
It’s by the ceramic artist called Four.<\/p>\n
This little bird is a bird that was given to me by my mother<\/p>\n
because she knows that I love birds.<\/p>\n
Oliver Freundlich and I, who’s my architect,<\/p>\n
were really, really careful<\/p>\n
about the details of this apartment because it’s small.<\/p>\n
I mean, not terribly small,<\/p>\n
but it’s compact enough<\/p>\n
that the details really, really matter.<\/p>\n
And so that idea<\/p>\n
of having just like a little bit of shine everywhere,<\/p>\n
like in the light switches and with the faucets<\/p>\n
and the cabinet handles<\/p>\n
was really something that we were trying to achieve.<\/p>\n
You have to be really careful about this door<\/p>\n
because there’s a handle only on the inside.<\/p>\n
So if you go like this and you go like this,<\/p>\n
you could lock somebody out,<\/p>\n
which is what I did to my husband once<\/p>\n
when he was outside in the terrace working<\/p>\n
and I went to work.<\/p>\n
Luckily, he had his phone with him<\/p>\n
so I could come back upstairs and let him in.<\/p>\n
[upbeat music]<\/p>\n
So this is actually the entry to the apartment.<\/p>\n
There’s a little door here that goes to the hallway.<\/p>\n
I have a mirror that I actually just put up here,<\/p>\n
a really beautiful ceramic piece<\/p>\n
by an artist named Isabel Rower.<\/p>\n
It’s almost my height if I stand on my toes.<\/p>\n
I like craft a lot.<\/p>\n
I don’t like things to be overproduced.<\/p>\n
I like patina, I like texture, I like ceramics.<\/p>\n
This is a piece that I found in a vintage store<\/p>\n
on West 13th Street, early 2000s.<\/p>\n
It’s been in every entryway<\/p>\n
of every house I’ve had since then.<\/p>\n
I just love it. It’s like a piece of sculpture.<\/p>\n
And this is a bowl that was given to me by a makeup artist<\/p>\n
that I work with when we were doing Hannibal,<\/p>\n
was a woodworker in Asheville where we were shooting,<\/p>\n
and she knew that I wouldn’t like the piece<\/p>\n
if it was finished,<\/p>\n
so she asked for it to be unfinished,<\/p>\n
and it looks really great.<\/p>\n
This is a Pierre Chapo table<\/p>\n
that I looked for for a long time<\/p>\n
and was lucky enough to find.<\/p>\n
It’s sort of our entry tables.<\/p>\n
We put things down on it all the time.<\/p>\n
I work here during the day.<\/p>\n
It’s a joy to be in this room with a terrace right there<\/p>\n
working on this beautiful table.<\/p>\n
It makes me really happy.<\/p>\n
People always ask about the bookcases.<\/p>\n
These were the previous owner’s.<\/p>\n
They’re so cool and I really like the color.<\/p>\n
So when I was trying to pick the color for the apartment,<\/p>\n
I had this to use as a sample.<\/p>\n
I used the concrete tiles from the kitchen<\/p>\n
and the stone that I used for the mantelpiece.<\/p>\n
So I had those as a sample with this,<\/p>\n
and I was able to find a paint<\/p>\n
that kind of went with all three,<\/p>\n
and it’s Seapearl by Benjamin Moore.<\/p>\n
So the books, basically,<\/p>\n
I have all of my design books over there.<\/p>\n
These are kind of my art books.<\/p>\n
This is an artist who I admire very much, Sheila Hicks,<\/p>\n
and she’s actually represented<\/p>\n
by a gallery that’s very, very close to here.<\/p>\n
And I saw her once in the street outside the gallery<\/p>\n
and I was too shy to go over and say hello,<\/p>\n
but I did stare at her for a while.<\/p>\n
These pieces are by my friend Massimiliano Locatelli,<\/p>\n
who’s an Italian architect.<\/p>\n
He’s a friend of mine<\/p>\n
and he’s gifted me both of these pieces.<\/p>\n
This one’s cool because look,<\/p>\n
turns into a chair<\/p>\n
or you can use it as a bench.<\/p>\n
Anyway, he’s really, really talented.<\/p>\n
He lives in Milan, and I see him whenever I go there.<\/p>\n
And I love this little silver chair.<\/p>\n
[mellow music]<\/p>\n
This is our living room, and I think it’s pretty much a fact<\/p>\n
that if there’s not a TV in a living room, you won’t use it.<\/p>\n
And I don’t like to sit<\/p>\n
and, like, have a TV off to the side.<\/p>\n
So we put a projector in the room<\/p>\n
and kept the other wall blank.<\/p>\n
So it’s absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind technical equipment.<\/p>\n
I’d rather see a good-looking piece of equipment<\/p>\n
than see something kind of in a case.<\/p>\n
And we sit here and we watch basketball and we watch movies.<\/p>\n
We’re lucky enough to have an actual working fireplace.<\/p>\n
That’s very, very unusual in New York City.<\/p>\n
Okay, and so this is something,<\/p>\n
I was really inspired when I went to a sculptor’s house once<\/p>\n
and he had all of these tiny little pieces<\/p>\n
that he made everywhere.<\/p>\n
So that’s what I did.<\/p>\n
This is Rogan Gregory, whose work I like quite a bit.<\/p>\n
This is Nancy Pearce.<\/p>\n
She makes these objects, these sort of everyday objects.<\/p>\n
This is a pair of AirPods.<\/p>\n
Here’s a cassette tape that she makes.<\/p>\n
Then she saw some ceramic pieces that I made<\/p>\n
and she was like, You know what?<\/p>\n
Why don’t we make them in bronze?<\/p>\n
These are all pieces that I made in ceramic<\/p>\n
and that she cast in bronze.<\/p>\n
This is a crystal ball that my husband gave me once.<\/p>\n
My brother-in-law, an architect, Oliver Freundlich,<\/p>\n
gave me these pieces.<\/p>\n
I think they’re pretty cool.<\/p>\n
I think Noguchi is such an important American artist.<\/p>\n
You know, you can actually have<\/p>\n
a piece of light sculpture in your house,<\/p>\n
so I just think he’s incredible.<\/p>\n
This is Nakashima, a Japanese American designer<\/p>\n
who worked in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
This is the first<\/p>\n
important piece of furniture I ever bought.<\/p>\n
This is Gaetano Pesce.<\/p>\n
So, Matthieu Blazy, he had a show where he had Pesce<\/p>\n
make and supply all of the chairs for the audience.<\/p>\n
So everybody sat in these kind of amazing chairs.<\/p>\n
And you just have to be careful to keep it out of the sun<\/p>\n
because evidently it can melt, but it hasn’t melted yet.<\/p>\n
So I want to tell you the story about my wax baby,<\/p>\n
which I love so much.<\/p>\n
I was doing a photo shoot with my friend Helena Christensen<\/p>\n
and I was working with a woman named Lisbeth McCoy,<\/p>\n
and I saw this baby<\/p>\n
and I said, Oh my God, that’s so beautiful.<\/p>\n
Who made that baby?<\/p>\n
And Lisbeth said, I did.<\/p>\n
So it’s really an amazing piece to have.<\/p>\n
And I like this too<\/p>\n
because it’s with our Louise Bourgeois piece right here<\/p>\n
and there’s something about these pieces<\/p>\n
that are both so feminine.<\/p>\n
I think they’re kind of like great<\/p>\n
in conversation with each other.<\/p>\n
[upbeat music]<\/p>\n
So here I’m polishing my light switches.<\/p>\n
So these are Forbes & Lomax, and I really love them.<\/p>\n
They feel so good in your hand.<\/p>\n
I love the color of the polished nickel.<\/p>\n
I have to have a bathtub.<\/p>\n
I have to have a bathtub in my house.<\/p>\n
I have to have a bathtub in a hotel.<\/p>\n
It’s like something that is essential to my life.<\/p>\n
And this has the cutest little bathtub.<\/p>\n
It’s actually the perfect size for me<\/p>\n
because I don’t like a bathtub that’s too big<\/p>\n
because then the water gets too cold too fast.<\/p>\n
I was fortunate that it was here,<\/p>\n
so we were able to use the original bathtub.<\/p>\n
The previous owner had excellent taste.<\/p>\n
These were all her marble tiles.<\/p>\n
And Oliver, very painstakingly,<\/p>\n
found tiles that would match them.<\/p>\n
It’s sort of interesting, but it really works<\/p>\n
to have all of these different patterns.<\/p>\n
This is a signature of Oliver’s. I love this.<\/p>\n
A marine lip.<\/p>\n
This is, you know, so if you spill,<\/p>\n
say you’re drinking your water and you go like this,<\/p>\n
it’s not gonna go off the edge.<\/p>\n
It’s gonna collect on the marine lip, which I love.<\/p>\n
And everybody always comments on that<\/p>\n
when they see this bathroom.<\/p>\n
These are Eileen Gray light fixtures. I just love them.<\/p>\n
Like I said, I like things that are a little bit industrial<\/p>\n
or a little bit hard.<\/p>\n
One of the things that’s great<\/p>\n
about this bathroom in particular<\/p>\n
is because the marble is so bright<\/p>\n
and these lights are so good,<\/p>\n
you tend to look really good in this bathroom.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you might look better in this bathroom<\/p>\n
than you do in real life.<\/p>\n
So I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.<\/p>\n
[mellow music]<\/p>\n
I do a lot of yoga,<\/p>\n
so I like to keep the floor bare up here.<\/p>\n
I sort of struggle with whether or not I put a rug down,<\/p>\n
but I like it like this.<\/p>\n
We put in all of these closets, so this is all my stuff.<\/p>\n
Mine are packed, which is why I’m not gonna open it up.<\/p>\n
This I love.<\/p>\n
This is a photograph that my husband took<\/p>\n
with his telescope and his iPhone.<\/p>\n
It’s a picture of the moon.<\/p>\n
My little Nanna Ditzel stool, Danish female designer.<\/p>\n
I love this little stool.<\/p>\n
These are vintage angled lamps that I had<\/p>\n
and they were wall-mounted.<\/p>\n
So only recently was I able to find these bases<\/p>\n
and then I brought them to my lamp guy and he attached them.<\/p>\n
So I’m very happy about that.<\/p>\n
This is really funny.<\/p>\n
I’m about to do this movie based on this book.<\/p>\n
Do you guys know this book? Okay.<\/p>\n
So this is a book that came out in the ’70s<\/p>\n
and a lot of people don’t, like, know it,<\/p>\n
but it’s a book that’s basically like a version<\/p>\n
of the Kama Sutra<\/p>\n
that was written by, like, an English scientist.<\/p>\n
So I’m about to make a movie based on that book.<\/p>\n
That’s why it’s there.<\/p>\n
[upbeat music]<\/p>\n
Bye, AD. Thanks for coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, AD. Welcome to my New York City home. Come on in. Watch your step. [upbeat music] We…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-367621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367621","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=367621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}