00:00Hey A.D. Hi. Where the Consuelos is. Welcome to our favorite place on earth. Come on in, come on in.
00:23Welcome to our cigar lounge. My cigar lounge. My cigar lounge. Yeah. Otherwise known as bar
00:29five. It's on the fifth floor. Well, the impulse was we wanted it to feel like 1970s New York City
00:36meets 1920s Paris. It was a pleasure working with Bill Sofield. He said, well, why don't we go to
00:40Paris and go to the flea markets and get a bunch of stuff for your house? I think that's where we
00:44really fell in love. This became the hangout room in the entire house. And it was initially
00:49thought of as just Mark's space where he would go to smoke cigars because he had a special
00:54ventilation system put in here that sucks the smoke out of the sky, allegedly. You smell cigars?
01:01No, you can't. It never smells like cigars in here, which is crazy because I know a lot of
01:05cigars have been smoked in this room. Yeah, for sure. Sporting events are watched. Games are played.
01:10Cocktail parties. Everything happens. And the design inspiration, we saw this Yves Saint Laurent
01:14documentary called Le Morphe. And I just love the color of the paint somewhere on a wall. That's how
01:19we started with the room. And we found this table. The best find. I think it's from the 70s and it's
01:25like really old school fiber optics. But we had to have the glass replaced because the glass was so
01:32fragile from it being so old and so many, I think, parties. There's a lot of etchings in the glass.
01:39So we had the glass replaced. Yeah. A lot of Formula One inspired photography because I love Formula One.
01:46It's the ultimate guy's room. I don't come up here often, but when I do, I always
01:50say to myself, I should spend more time up here. It's so pretty. Check this out.
01:56Cigars.
02:00A little humidor. Okay, just so you know, I've lived here as long as he has and I did not know that was there.
02:07This is our bedroom. I think the feeling for the bedroom was always like when we travel to Europe or
02:19we go to a beautiful hotel, the feeling that you get there, it's sexy, it's peaceful, it's quiet.
02:26That was the feeling we were going for in the bedroom. I really feel at home here. Just about
02:31every light fixture and everything you see in this room has come from the flea markets in Paris.
02:38Something more interesting than just us happened to all of these beautiful pieces and we're glad
02:45to be able to give them new homes and new lives. And don't think we're crazy about putting a mirror
02:51in front of our bed. It hides a TV. We don't stare at ourselves. We watch Judge Judy.
02:57I remember the gold leaf at the headboard took, gosh, they had like these elves in here,
03:02just rubbing and rubbing and laying more down, rubbing and rubbing. And we watched them do it.
03:07But we kept thinking it was perfect. Every time. It's perfect. Don't touch it.
03:12These two, I guess we would call them like little chandeliers. They're a pair but they
03:15came separately and we got someone to match the fringe on both and it just took such a long time.
03:20This is where I spend most of my time. I do a lot of work in here. I wrote my book right there
03:28at this desk on that chair and I had to have it reupholstered.
03:32Yes.
03:32Because I wore the fabric out of the chair in the shape of my rear end. That's how much time
03:39I spent there. Also in winter, spring, summer, fall, it's a beautiful view. And then I love
03:45these pictures of the kids because these are kind of the ages they were when we moved in here.
03:48Oh yeah. The artwork that we have in the hallway is from an artist named Mark Quinn. By the way,
03:53those are our kids' eyes.
03:54And he photographs the eye and he paints the eye but from the inside looking out. So it's not a
04:03print. It's not a photograph.
04:05You know, they don't live here anymore. So when we leave our bedroom,
04:08like it feels like they're still with us.
04:10I could stare at my kids' eyes forever. I just think they're great. And now even though the
04:14kids are gone, we still share a bathroom and a closet. And people always find that very
04:19remarkable. Why don't one of you take one of the kids' bathrooms and closet? And we've always
04:26shared a bathroom and a closet.
04:27And we always will.
04:28And I don't think we will ever not share a bathroom and a closet. I just feel like
04:33you and I live well together. It's also forced us to be very diligent about what we buy,
04:41wearing what we have, not being wasteful. It keeps you honest. We've moved several times in
04:47our lives, but no matter where we go, for me, this is my forever home. When I walked in here,
04:53I was like, this is the final place where I will live. I love this house so much.
05:04All right. Welcome to our living room.
05:06This would be the informal, formal living room. We have had so many great parties in this room.
05:13It presents as fancy, but it really is super comfortable and very casual.
05:19If we have an important meeting and someone's coming to our house, like a business meeting.
05:23Where we try to look adult.
05:24Come in. And then I do this.
05:30And then they're trapped.
05:31We make them sit on the sofa, which is like a chic, shiny velvet. And then.
05:37We watch them slide.
05:38We watch them slide. Kind of throws them off a little bit. At the end of the day,
05:42we're still us. So it's going to be goofy. And the fireplace is.
05:46Louis XVI, I think. And during Christmas, we actually have that middle part of that
05:51couch removed. We spread out the chairs and we put a Christmas tree right in that window.
05:55And this entire room becomes a Christmas room.
05:58And the tapestries.
05:59They are works of art. They really are.
06:01There is a TV in here. It's behind that beautiful mirror there that just turns on.
06:06These guys are a hit, especially when we have little kids come over.
06:09Oh, yeah.
06:10We've had to glue a couple of those ears back on because they've been dropped.
06:13The late, great Gloria Vanderbilt gave us as a housewarming present,
06:18one of her paintings over the fireplace, which I actually think she did with pastels.
06:23She just said it looked like us.
06:26We also have a photo of her when she just completed it in her studio.
06:30Yeah.
06:30So it just means a lot. You know, I always feel like she's watching over us.
06:40All right. This is our dining room. Big family meals, dinner parties.
06:45Lots of Sunday Chinese food with our friends.
06:48Yep.
06:48Which leads us to the best part.
06:51You love a lazy Susan.
06:52Because I am lazier than most Susans.
06:56But I didn't necessarily want to see a lazy Susan.
06:59Check this out. Tell me that's not the greatest.
07:02It is so great.
07:03When the rice and the food gets stuck.
07:05Flip that up. Pull it out.
07:06And you can lift it and you can vacuum.
07:08Vacuum.
07:09Ball bearings and a groove and you've got a lazy Susan.
07:12I knew I needed an office. It didn't need to be big.
07:15And so I found space in the back there.
07:18And so we turned that into my office. I get a view of the garden.
07:21I can take some calls.
07:22And it's also a little butler's pantry bar for the dining room.
07:26So this chandelier, extraordinary, cultural, truly beautiful.
07:31This came from Vienna.
07:33And Bill said, if one third of it arrives intact, we'll be thrilled.
07:41And the entire thing arrived.
07:43There wasn't a beat out of place. It was really a miracle.
07:47And you know this, I'm going to tell you the kind of guy that Bill is.
07:50Because he is a very unique person.
07:53We were with him in Paris and our youngest son came with us and he loved escargot.
08:00And Bill, I think, found it quite remarkable that a little kid that was,
08:04you know, nine years old was eating snails.
08:07And so Bill bought this for Joaquin for the house.
08:10They're escargot toothpicks that you can pick your snails out of the shells.
08:16And I just found that to be like indicative of who he is.
08:25Come on into the kitchen.
08:27Every room is the heart and soul, but this actually is.
08:30Yeah, it's nice. It's just off the garden.
08:32If we ever want to go outside and have a cup of coffee.
08:34So we're very serious about our coffee.
08:35We're fussy coffee drinkers.
08:37You can see we have multiple machines for multiple things.
08:40This is the snack closet.
08:42It's the pantry.
08:42Come home from work.
08:44No, but it is more than a pantry.
08:46It is a snack closet because most pantries have things that you would cook with.
08:52This one just has snacks.
08:54We come home from work.
08:55We immediately go there.
08:57We get a snack.
08:58We sit down here.
08:59We finish up whatever work we have to do for the day.
09:02And it was fun finding like all the stone and going to the yards with Bill.
09:07You guys went to quarries.
09:09Quarries, yeah.
09:10And you were talking to me about how it had a singular vein.
09:14Well, this vein, you could see that there was a shift.
09:16There was like a seismic shift here that used to be like that.
09:19And something happened.
09:20And all these lines are just a little bit off.
09:22Or they cracked it and they just put it together wrong.
09:24I'm not sure which one it is.
09:26Oh, and I dug this picture up to show you guys because we were talking about when Bill
09:30took us to the Paris flea markets and he sent me this photo.
09:35I tried to convince Mark to buy a giant disco ball.
09:39And he said it was just too on the nose.
09:41Also, our fairly not quite opaque, mildly translucent cabinets keep us honest.
09:49We are forced to be organized.
09:51There were so many discussions about poles for the doorknobs and for the drawers and
09:57for the cabinetry.
09:59I did not realize that those would be separate purchases.
10:03Those would be extra.
10:04That was you and Bill going to every pole.
10:08Yeah, we looked at all the poles and they do match the ones in the bar and the cigar
10:12lounge.
10:12Those are nice and sturdy and they were nice on the hand as well.
10:15Yeah, they're everywhere.
10:16Oh, yeah.
10:16One thing we did here that I thought was cool is he wrapped this.
10:21Otherwise, the kitchen hoods are just kind of like industrial.
10:24So we plastered the kitchen hood.
10:27Love the shape of it.
10:28We went from living in a loft downtown in Soho.
10:31Everything was like this.
10:33Very industrial.
10:34Very industrial stuff to plastering my oven hood.
10:39Yeah, having arches departure for you.
10:41Arches.
10:41And when I saw things like with round shapes, I'm like, what is that?
10:44That was not your cup of tea.
10:45We used to like austere, minimalist spaces.
10:49And then I think moving uptown changed you.
10:52Yeah.
10:53Turned you into a gentleman.
10:56I cook, but you're the griller.
10:58Yeah, caveman stuff I can do, but she's a fabulous cook.
11:03No, I'm not a fabulous cook.
11:05There's a total difference in those two statements.
11:08I do great because he's hungry.
11:10Although I will say when you see the eggs in the magazine, those are stun eggs.
11:14I did not make those eggs.
11:17My eggs are gorgeous.
11:19They are really pretty.
11:31All right, AD, that's it.
11:32That's our tour.
11:33Hope you enjoyed it.
11:34Come see us again.
11:36Please.
11:36We're going to go change into sweatpants.
11:40See you.
11:40Bye.
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