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Today, AD is welcomed by Rachel Brosnahan to tour her warm, art-filled New York home. ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star designed her home with Zoë Feldman (Zoë Feldman Design), and the colorful home features a pink-toned living room made for entertaining, a green kitchen, and a serene coral bedroom layered in florals and stripes. Meaningful artworks fill the walls, from her own holiday photos to 1970s architectural designs of the apartment found rolled up in a closet; every piece tells a story.
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00:02Hey, A.D. Welcome to our house. What do you think, Gwyn?
00:08Come on in.
00:26This is the entryway. It's the first thing you see when you come in, and we wanted it to
00:31feel warm and inviting. We brought this new apartment to life with the help of Zoe Feldman
00:37and her wonderful team at Zoe Feldman Design. Jason and I are obviously artists, and we
00:42know so many fantastic artists, and I've loved finding a mixture of artists that we love
00:48and didn't know, and kind of mixing them in with friends of ours. For example, this
00:53is by an artist who lived in my parents' apartment building when I was really little, and told
00:59my parents that I was going to be an artist, and then sent me a piece of art about that
01:03size in a Dutch master's cigar box every year, twice a year since I was born. His name is
01:09Don Bukta, and he often used torn up paper to make a lot of his art. I actually named my
01:13production company Scrap Paper Pictures after him. We actually found these two architectural
01:19designs rolled up with a bunch of others inside of the closet when we first got the apartment,
01:25and they're actually this apartment. A former architecture firm was laying them out, and we
01:30think they're from maybe the 70s, but I just love them. We found this at a dispensary, and
01:36we liked it, so we get the gallery wall.
01:49This is my living room. We love to have people over. We love to entertain, love to have friends
01:56come visit, and so we wanted a space where a lot of people could gather and get comfy,
02:01so very grateful that Jason is not a man who's afraid of pink. And we just talked about this
02:06space. We love the light in here, and wanted to let the room feel light and bright and welcoming,
02:13and then wanted something that drew your eye. Jason and a buddy of his run a company called
02:18Looks Like a Great Time, and they made hats and t-shirts and bags, and they decided to try to
02:24make a
02:24sculpture out of their hats. So this is anything you want it to be, really. It's a bowl. Looks like
02:30a great time,
02:31and it is a great time. So thanks, Jason, for that one. We knew that we wanted a game table,
02:36and that it was
02:37going to kind of be a central part of this room. It's the first thing you see when you come
02:41in, and so we
02:42wanted something that felt special, but simple, especially something that goes in front of these beautiful windows,
02:48and Zoe and her team found this beautiful table. Got a little light, because you need to see what you're
02:53doing when you're kicking someone's ass at cards. There's nothing that makes us feel better than
02:57having everyone we love around, pulling up random pieces of furniture, playing some games, watching a movie,
03:02listening to music. We were kind of looking for the perfect thing to go above the fireplace, and a couple
03:18of them, because mostly we thought he was hilarious, and also had some concerns about his well-being.
03:22But we later found ourselves fighting over who actually took this picture. We have no idea. We have
03:28no idea who the photo credit is. It's definitely me. But it's one of those where I feel like it's
03:31a little
03:31bit like Where's Waldo. The more you look at it, the funnier it gets. Like, I have questions. Dolce Vita,
03:38you know? Is this a McDonald's blanket? I think it is, and so much more. There was a period where
03:45I moved
03:4611 times in 12 years, and I felt like I never had a place that felt like home. And so
03:52it was really
03:52important to me that this felt like a place I could land, a place I felt at home in. And
03:58so I think this
03:59is our final form.
04:10When Jason and I moved into our first apartment together, he was running a theater company called
04:14Strange Men and Company. And we had all these big white walls. Big. They were, like, very small,
04:21but they felt big to us at the time. Walls that we wanted to put something up on, but we
04:25were very
04:25early in our careers. And a company was breaking down a set and just let us walk off with this
04:32big
04:32yellow thing from their set. And we've actually taken it from apartment to apartment to apartment.
04:38Every place we've ever lived since is sort of a little piece of where we came from,
04:42a little piece of our history. And this is the phone. I wanted a landline. Everybody was confused.
04:49Our contractor kept trying to take the phone out. I just feel like I've been in New York a long
04:53time.
04:53I've been here through some emergencies. If you lose power, I want a landline. Anyways, I'm very glad that
04:58it's here. We got some snacks in jars. You know, some Doritos in a jar. There's something about jars
05:04for food that scratches, like, an itch in my brain. Everything has a place, you know?
05:11This is generally where we eat breakfast. Cereal eggs, all the good stuff. These are actually two
05:17of my favorite pieces from an artist we recently discovered. I just love how soft they feel in the
05:22space. And this is the kitchen. We went back and forth on the color of the kitchen for a really
05:28long time.
05:29Our original idea was to do kind of a plum color, but we're so obsessed with green and we couldn't
05:34get away from it. This is Jeffrey. He keeps the cookies and sometimes Winston's treats. It depends,
05:40depends on how we're feeling. He has lived with Jason in every apartment he's ever lived in. The black
05:45and white floor isn't original to the kitchen, but there was something about it that felt kind of
05:50original to this space, like kind of a throwback. And I just love the way it felt like it grounded
05:55the
05:55space. I've always loved, and so is Jason, a black and white tile. And so it felt like it really
06:00pulled
06:00this whole kitchen together. This beautiful tile was a Zoe suggestion. We were looking for something
06:07that would just give a little bit of an element of surprise to this space. I love it. It feels
06:12like
06:12the English countryside or something. I'm half British and something about this tile always felt like a
06:17little bit of my other home. There's a little bedroom off the kitchen that we call the boat room,
06:30because in order to still have access to the closet, we created a contraption that made it so you could
06:35open the closet over the bed like a boat. I love the stripe, the silk stripe over the day bed.
06:42I love the
06:43nook it's in. It just feels really cozy. There is a shower in there, there is a toilet, and there
06:48is a
06:49sink. World's smallest sink, world's smallest shower, but maybe the world's most beautifully designed
06:54bathroom, thanks to Zoe.
07:05This is the dining room slash office area, and this was actually originally one room, and we were so
07:11tempted to keep it. A, it felt like kind of a waste of space, and also we felt like we
07:15wouldn't use it.
07:16We split the room. We were a little concerned about cutting off the light with this bookshelf,
07:21and so ultimately we decided to keep the back room light and bright. This was actually up until very
07:27shortly before we finished this project. This was going to be a really fun striped wallpaper that we
07:33ended up actually putting in the hallway by the elevator instead. And at the very last minute,
07:38the bookshelves had been painted this beautiful preference red, I believe it's called. It's my
07:43preference. So sorry. And then we decided that maybe we should just drench the whole room in it,
07:50and it really brought the whole space to life. It lets you see the books. You know, we've been
07:55collecting books for years. In our old house, we just had books kind of stacked all over the place
07:59because we didn't know what to do with them. And now we have these beautiful shelves to display them.
08:03Even though it's a dining room, we still wanted it, like the rest of the house, to feel really lived
08:08in and welcoming and relaxed. And I feel like it does just that.
08:21This is my office. Never thought I would have an office job, but I do now. I run a production
08:26company,
08:26and so I do actually spend time sitting at a desk working on a computer. We wanted the space to
08:32feel
08:32light and bright, gonna need to take zooms in here, needed to be able to separate it from the rest
08:37of
08:37the house, but also wanted the light to be able to travel through. I'm so obsessed with this beautiful
08:45piece Jason's cousin Lauren Pierce made for us. I had asked her, you know, if she would mind making a
08:53piece
08:53for us, and she asked what we wanted it to be of, talked a little bit about scrap paper pictures,
08:57and she incorporated all of this beautiful torn paper. And this piece really makes this whole room
09:04come alive. There's a picture that was taken by our fantastic set photographer on Maisel in one of our
09:10subway sets, a black and white, that I just thought was so beautiful. And so I wanted to figure out
09:14a
09:14place to put that that wasn't like so obvious and is really just for me. And nobody else has to
09:19look at
09:19my face all the time elsewhere in the house.
09:29I have kind of a love affair with stripes and this green is one of my favorite colors. And so
09:34shout out to the
09:35green stripes on the way to the bedroom.
09:43It was really important to me to have a space that felt really peaceful and calm and quiet. And we're
09:50so lucky that
09:51this room gets really beautiful light and so wanted to figure out a way to balance the light around the
09:56room.
09:57I would have been really afraid, I think, to make a pink bedroom and especially this beautiful coral color. But
10:03I would have
10:03been really nervous to put that in a space like this. And Zoe and her team were really encouraging,
10:08helped us find the perfect pink. We fell in love with this floral pattern and obviously so in love
10:16that we decided to use it all over this room. I love this window seat so much and loved the
10:23the repetition
10:23of it throughout the room. And so we found the stripe, we found the floral fabric, and then we're looking
10:30for
10:30some ways to keep the room from feeling too vintage. And so this piece that had a really dark background,
10:38the black felt like it grounded the room. And I just love these ladies, love their heels. And then this
10:42piece over here is by my friend's mom, Moya Aiken is her name, and just fell so in love with
10:48this piece.
10:48She's so talented. This is a piece by a wonderful artist named Gigi Collins. And similarly, it felt like
10:55the more geometric shapes, the colors just kind of helped ground this room a little bit and
11:00modernize it. Same with this beautiful black lamp. Give me a high five. Good boy. Good boy. Next to
11:07the living room, this is probably my second favorite room in the house. Such a nice place to pee and
11:12shower.
11:13Can't ask for much more than that. We really wanted originally to keep the floors, but there were some
11:18cracks in them and it just was going to be hard to save. And so I wanted to figure out
11:22how to keep the
11:23feeling which felt like kind of an homage to the original space. That's where the unlacquered brass
11:29came in. And over time, this should just get a little bit darker, a little bit more lived in.
11:33We went to our first stone yard, which was so much fun. We got to look at all these beautiful
11:39slabs of
11:40stone and couldn't believe that they come out of the earth. And we settled on this, I believe it's a
11:44marble, Rosa Aurora. Just loved the little pink tones inside of it that felt like it connected to the
11:51primary space. And then they used some of that pink stone also inside the shower to cut a little
11:56insert in here where we can put our shampoo and conditioner and soap.
12:08The guest room, we wanted it to be a place that felt fun and maybe different from a space that
12:13you
12:13might stay in in your own house. Have some fun art in there, fun wallpaper. I'm so obsessed with the
12:19green
12:19floor in the bathroom, this kind of turquoise-y, green pebble-looking floor. The guest bedroom is
12:26also where I put all the things I stole from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel set. So the rug in there
12:32is
12:32actually the rug that was in Abe and Rose's dining room. Midge's desk is also in the guest room. You
12:40wouldn't know it came from the show, but I know it came from the show. That was such a special
12:44time in
12:44my life. And so it's nice to be able to incorporate some of the pieces into this apartment.
12:57Well, thanks for coming over. See you soon, I hope. Say bye, Wyn. Bye. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
13:06Bye-bye.
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