00:00I hear Bad Bunny.
00:05Hello AD, it's Paloma Alsasser, welcome to my home.
00:19Welcome to my living room.
00:21I grew up in a house that every single room had multi-functions.
00:25My mom lived in the living room, and me and my siblings would live in the bedroom or whatever
00:31it was.
00:32So I was very excited for this space to be very intentional.
00:36Brooklyn was always for me like the goal in many ways.
00:40Firstly, I wanted a multi-family home.
00:43I grew up in a multi-family home in Los Angeles.
00:46Second, was I also grew up in a historically black neighborhood, and I wanted to be surrounded
00:53by the environment that I grew up around.
00:56And third, I just didn't want to see people I worked with every single day of the week,
01:01every single hour.
01:04I didn't actually ask anyone else to work on this house with me besides Gregory Rockwell
01:10and Hester Hottie, who are iconic designers from Gregory Rockwell Interiors.
01:15We started off centered around a lot of Italian influence.
01:20So there's some old, some new, some contemporary, some different kind of multicultural layers.
01:25But ultimately what I love about specifically Milano design is that it's kind of this like
01:33kookiness that some people might not like, but it inserts such a profound joy while remaining
01:39really elegant and timeless.
01:41This little sofa is a little freaky thing.
01:44It's kind of like this like Jetson-y, space-age shape that we really loved, and then we wanted
01:50to cover it in this really elegant camel mohair.
01:53And I think it interacts perfectly with highlighting this beautiful artwork by my dear friend,
01:58Eric Mack.
01:59I think he does amazing, almost like sculptural, textile layering work.
02:04I love that this work is named after his grandmother, Mary.
02:08I too am a big fan of my grandmother.
02:11And I think it brought a familial and warmth to this room.
02:16So one of my favorite pieces in this room is this light fixture.
02:22It's literally called Lil' Luxury.
02:24It's by a German designer named Ingo Maurer.
02:27It perfectly hangs under the original crown molding of this house that was built in 1905.
02:33And it's this beautiful, warm, layered kind of structure.
02:37It felt like a really nice accent to its history, but also how it exists today.
02:43By the way, like I hate televisions, and I think that to offset that there is literally
02:49a television here, I wanted to be surrounded by all these beautiful, fun, amazing things
02:53like this tiny little dogan penis, and my particular favorite, an R. Crumb devil girl.
02:59Look.
03:13And welcome to my kitchen.
03:16I love this room.
03:17It brings me so much joy.
03:19So we're very inspired by Milanese and like historic Italian palazzos that often have
03:26modern kitchens kind of interjected into them.
03:29Like how do we like honor this like a gorgeous molding, but then put this shiny range.
03:35My kind of vision of this space was like being able to just kind of crowd around it.
03:41Maybe someone could be dancing on it.
03:43Maybe there's like spilled sauce or whatever it is.
03:46And that's happened a few times.
03:47Some say that green marble is a faux pas, but what I think is a faux pas is stripping
03:52a house of its history.
03:54So I really did want to honor the history of this room while providing it with some
04:01beautiful modernity.
04:03You know, this already existed.
04:05Cool.
04:06Let's put a pantry that's an aluminum lacquered space with almost these weird Italian perforated
04:12vents.
04:13Ultimately, what I also love most about this room is the color.
04:17It is this kind of citron yellowy green that truly brings so much levity and quiet, despite
04:27somebody being like, wow, this is a crazy color.
04:30I find it quite muted.
04:33This felt like this like genius idea that came into our heads when we were like sitting
04:36around talking about perfectly tucking in these like gorgeous walnut stools.
04:41It literally hit something within my spirit that I have long, long since sought to feel
04:48again.
04:49This is very special to me.
04:50It is my great, great, great grandmother.
04:53This picture is just so special.
04:54Can you believe that these things still are around?
04:57I think being surrounded by like the strength of like women and the people, my ancestors
05:03that come before me and the hair is just so beautiful and she's so beautiful and there's
05:08a stoicism in her eyes that I feel like reminds me the life that I get to live today is because
05:15of all the things that she did and I need to be reminded of that gratitude people.
05:20Let's go into my dining room.
05:27This is my wonderful dining room.
05:29This is actually my favorite room in the house.
05:33Early in the morning, light pours in here that straight up covers me with a sense of
05:38serenity that I rarely feel.
05:42I think the first thing that we got in here was this beautiful table.
05:46It is a vintage Sopsath table.
05:48I think the shape of this table speaks to the shape of this room.
05:52I often sit here and do like meetings or talk to friends and just like look out at the trees,
06:00look out at my neighbors.
06:01I waited literally seven months to get these Indian chick blinds, but we were obsessed
06:08with having them.
06:10There's just a conversation that's happening between this like kind of zany light fixture
06:14with blinds with like the light pouring in and then we're looking to this beautiful artwork
06:20by Taylor Simmons that adds the most perfect element in this room because there's always
06:26conversation, there's always things happening in this room, but there is deep contemplation
06:31that happens for me right, like literally right here.
06:34Even though, like I said, there's a lot of chat, there's also a lot of thinking and this
06:37work speaks exactly to that.
06:44Okay, well this is my hallway and then there's a little secret here, my little Harry Potter
06:48moment.
06:49We separated the floors of the house.
06:51This actually used to be a stair set and I thought, of course we need a tiny bathroom.
06:57This bathroom makes me like incredibly happy because many people don't know that it exists.
07:03You know, if you ever just need to quietly take a moment or sleep like Harry Potter did.
07:19Okay, welcome to my bedroom.
07:22One big theme that you're going to notice is I'm a big wall to wall girly.
07:27I lean into what some may consider a faux pas, I say faux yeah.
07:33I wanted this room to feel fucking serene.
07:36I've spent a lot of time in hotels and everyone goes, your room's like a hotel and I was like,
07:42that's on purpose.
07:44There's no television here, there are no clothes in here, it is just quiet.
07:47I can't believe I'm letting you guys in here even.
07:50This is my pride and joy, this beautiful rattan bed that we found on auction.
07:56Sometimes when the light kind of like pours in, you can see all the gorgeous reflection
08:00on these like swirls, I'm going to call it.
08:03Really, really fab.
08:04I think that sometimes people have these like living room setups in their room and they're
08:08like fake.
08:09Mine is not.
08:10I sit on this sofa constantly talking to my mom and my grandma, talking shit to my friends
08:14and my boyfriend.
08:15I also love this table so much.
08:17It's Roger Caprone, he's a French iconic designer.
08:21All of these impressions are done with real foliage and leaves, which brings me profound
08:26joy.
08:27So now we're going to the crown jewel.
08:29This is like quite literally where the magic happens for me.
08:32But first I want to call out this beautiful sculpture from my friend Alix Vernet.
08:37She works in all of these amazing metal castings.
08:40It's like so beautiful and stellar the way that she kind of calls on history and speaks
08:45to the modern woman.
08:47I very much so identify with the way that she sees the world and sees femininity and
08:53how to like honor who we are and who we've been and who we're becoming.
09:09Now this is my beloved bathroom.
09:13It makes my life heaven knowing that I get to shower and brush my teeth and pop my pimples
09:19in a room that looks like this.
09:22Italian marble, obviously.
09:24I grew up in a house with one and a half bathrooms where there was definitely not a stool or
09:29a seat.
09:30When I take a shower, I look and I sit on this bench and I think that like, I'm okay
09:35today.
09:36And I think that's really awesome.
09:43Some might say this is actually where the magic happens.
09:52It is more where my absolute meltdowns happen.
09:55This is my closet.
09:56This is like my dream closet.
09:58Like, dude, I have like lights in here for my shoes.
10:01This is my boyfriend's shoes.
10:03But when we thought about this room, we really had to create serenity, enclosure, and quiet.
10:12I think that I needed there to be a moment of like reprieve and breath.
10:18Sometimes I just plop down on this beautiful wall-to-wall carpeting and think, why do I
10:25have so many fucking clothes?
10:26But I still get to do it in a beautiful room.
10:29So yeah, this is like my gorgeous dressing room.
10:34There's another one, but we don't have to tell anybody.
10:37It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
10:43This is my media room, which is absolutely insane to say in my mind.
10:54Like a media room.
10:55I don't even think I grew up with like a television.
10:59This room is obviously anchored with this gorgeous tiger sofa that we custom built and
11:07upholstered with this gorgeous Schumacher tiger print.
11:12I really do love chinoiserie and Chinese influence, however, many of the tables we were finding
11:17had like literal war scenes.
11:19So we decided that we would just custom one in this beautiful pond motif.
11:25Also this beautiful work is by Nathalie de Pasquier.
11:28She was like a seminal female figure in the Memphis Milano movement.
11:33And I think she doesn't only get the credit she deserves, it's very male dominated.
11:38This kooky strange room that again is littered with all these fun, strange things that I've
11:44collected in the world.
11:47These Tuareg beads that I brought in my carry on that everyone's like, oh, that's strange.
11:53But I love them so much.
11:54This is a gorgeous mask from Molly.
11:56These are just like kind of some of the books, but some days me and my boyfriend just have
12:01like a relaxed, like do nothing day is what we call it.
12:03We kind of spread out the books, eat pizza, do whatever.
12:06I know it sounds very like we just spread out books and eat pizza, but it's actually
12:10what we do.
12:11I'm not lying to you.
12:12But what I like about this room is that it's worldly.
12:15I think it really touches on all of my travels, all the things that make me happy.
12:20What I'm excited about is that it will continue to grow.
12:23I'll continue to put some new little prayer beads on my next travel and it won't feel
12:29out of place.
12:30It will just fit perfectly into this very worldly room.
12:36All right, AD, it was a pleasure having you at P.E.'s Playhouse, but now I must bid you
12:46farewell.
12:47All right.
12:48Love you.
12:49Bye.
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