00:05Hello, A.D. I'm Douglas Friedman, and welcome to my home.
00:09Come on in, I'll give you a tour.
00:22This is the most incredible room in the house,
00:25and I think one of the most incredible rooms
00:27that Steven Gambrill has ever designed.
00:30This is the sunroom, it's the kitchen,
00:33it's the heart of the home.
00:35The original structure that was here
00:36was the same footprint, it was a little lower,
00:39it was also a sunroom, but it felt cramped and dark.
00:42So we redesigned it and rebuilt it,
00:45stronger and bigger and brighter.
00:47It's wrapped in Marvin windows,
00:50and as you can see, it gets the most incredible light.
00:53And then Steven convinced me to do a dark kitchen,
00:57a dark gray paneled kitchen,
00:59and we worked closely with a lovely gentleman named Mamuka
01:03at TBS Kitchens in Santa Ana, California.
01:08All of the lighting in the house came from Urban Electric,
01:11like these incredible sconces and these hanging pendants.
01:14These, however, are antiques, and Steven found them in London.
01:18When we were laying out the kitchen,
01:20I thought it would be really great to have a banquette.
01:23And then I thought it would be really great to have a banquette
01:25that wrapped around the entire back of the kitchen,
01:28almost creating a restaurant or cafe-like atmosphere.
01:32This is my favorite spot in the house.
01:34This is where you will always...
01:35Actually, my favorite spot in the house,
01:37that's the captain's seat, is right here.
01:39I can sit and I could, like, look out over the yard.
01:42I can see my friends. I can see the dogs.
01:45I can watch everything happen.
01:47I can even look at these eggs
01:48that my friend Martha Stewart sent over this morning.
01:52So about three years ago when I bought this house,
01:55my best friend, Steven Gambrill,
01:57came by to see what I had done, what I had purchased,
02:00and he walked in and he goes,
02:02Oh my God, Dee, this is incredible.
02:04I really want to do this house.
02:06Like, this is a Steven Gambrill home.
02:08When you look at it, you know it's Steven's work.
02:10And I thought, being a friend,
02:12and somebody who's known me for 30 years,
02:14that he would just be like,
02:15Yeah, yeah, no problem. Do it your way.
02:17It's great. I completely trust you.
02:18Which I did, honestly.
02:20He ended up being the most challenging client.
02:23I don't think I was.
02:25Which goes to show that every client should be opinionated,
02:28and it makes the project better.
02:31This is the mudroom of the house,
02:34which is the de facto main entrance to the house.
02:37Originally, this was a forgotten back bedroom.
02:42So we decided to cut a doorway in,
02:45add a staircase to the basement,
02:47and then this turned into the mudroom.
02:49I worked with Tony Minetti at Ancient Surfaces,
02:52who stores these incredible stone floors.
02:53They were reclaimed from somewhere in Italy,
02:56and shipped over in these very heavy crates.
02:59This is the snug room.
03:01It's the room where you watch television.
03:03I don't watch a lot of television,
03:05but I'm going to try to start watching a lot of television in here.
03:08It's a really comfortable custom sofa that Steven designed.
03:11A great chair for my friends at Oslo in Los Angeles.
03:15It's a custom fabric.
03:16I think it's mohair.
03:17It's kind of great.
03:17And this beautiful piece by Tom Sachs.
03:20I don't think you can sit in it,
03:22but it sure looks good in that corner.
03:26So, Eddie, this is the dining room of the house,
03:28which was actually the kitchen of the house,
03:31but then Steven Gamble kind of reimagined it
03:33as more of a centerpiece.
03:35This table is by Tom Dixon, and it's brass.
03:39I got it as an antique.
03:41Maybe it's 14 years old,
03:42so it has this incredible patina to it.
03:45All of the light fixtures in the house are from Urban Electric,
03:47most of which were designed by Steven Gamble for Urban Electric.
03:51These two are actually some of my favorites.
03:53This one and the one that's up in the stairwell.
03:57And if you look over here,
03:58I worked very closely with a Mexican artist called Mike Diaz,
04:03and I think you'll find some of Mike's pieces
04:05in every room of the house.
04:07I'm just obsessed with what he creates.
04:09I actually commissioned an artist to do portraits of my dogs,
04:13Louise and Hey Sailor.
04:17So they're kind of always with me,
04:18even though my parents took them from me about 10 years ago,
04:21because I was working so much.
04:27This room was actually behind the original refrigerator
04:30and was used as a pantry.
04:32And then we reimagined it as the Lobmire bar.
04:36So Steven Gamble had a purple,
04:39an aubergine purple room in this house in Sag Harbor.
04:43And that was the inspiration for the color of the wet bar here at the house.
04:51This house never had a powder room.
04:53So we carved a powder room out of the old breakfast nook.
04:57And Steven decided to paint it red, asking me,
05:02and I think it's beautiful.
05:03And then he commissioned this artist,
05:05actually got her out of retirement,
05:07to make this beautiful marbleized paper
05:10that wraps the entire room in a leather, antique leather mirror.
05:15It falls into this room so beautifully.
05:19The color is just remarkable with this red trim.
05:25This is the living room of the house,
05:27and it has incredibly low, intimate ceilings.
05:31I think this room really kind of hugs you
05:33and makes you feel secure and warm.
05:36I can't wait to start a fire here in the wintertime.
05:40I worked closely with a lot of artists and makers
05:43to find furniture pieces that were unique, one-offs,
05:47things that couldn't be duplicated.
05:48Steven even created a lot of custom pieces for the house,
05:51and I just couldn't say no to this beautiful green leather chair.
05:56Steven bent the staircase into the dining room,
05:59which meant completely rebuilding the staircase.
06:02A lot more work than I assumed.
06:04And it also became a great spot for art.
06:06Just some random pieces I've collected over the years.
06:09But one of the more exciting pieces in the house
06:12is this guy right here, this little aperture in the wall.
06:16We actually built this staircase around this art piece,
06:20which is behind the wall.
06:22His name is Patrick Jacobs.
06:23Patrick went to Marfa, Texas,
06:25and he built a portal to my home there through this piece of art.
06:31Let's go upstairs and see all the bedrooms.
06:38Okay, so this was the saddest room in the house.
06:41It was the most uninspired.
06:43And so last week we lime washed it.
06:46This beautiful, beautiful, cozy color called dirt,
06:49which is also from my collection with Color Atelier.
06:52And this room is also full of some really incredible pieces.
06:55These amazing, amazing spiked lamps from Mike Diaz.
07:00God, this room is like a cocoon you never want to leave.
07:03And if you're lucky enough to sleep here,
07:04you get a fireplace and you get this beautiful collection of art.
07:08We're in the second guest bedroom now,
07:10which originally was a light gray and it was very beautiful.
07:15I think it must have been October of last year.
07:17And the tree right outside the window was bright red with its leaves
07:21and the sun was reflecting off those leaves
07:23and bouncing the most beautiful pink light into this room.
07:26And I called Steven.
07:28I was like, we've got to paint this room some incredible shade of pink.
07:32And we came up with a color called Rabbit Tongue,
07:35which is also part of my collection with Color Atelier.
07:41This area of the house was one of the more incredible renovation projects.
07:47Steven completely blew up the old layout up here
07:50and then reimagined it as a really kind of gracious primary suite.
07:56This is the primary bathroom with the most incredible reclaimed floor from ancient surfaces.
08:02Tony Minetti is really, really kind and found the most beautiful things for this house.
08:07All the bathroom tiles are from McIntyre Tile.
08:10They're all handmade by the most incredible artists in Northern California.
08:15And then, of course, there's that really magical toilet from Kohler.
08:20Can you believe this used to be the primary bathroom?
08:23Such an awkward use of a really beautiful space.
08:26So when we came in, we added windows, we built out this dormer,
08:31we painted the whole room in this incredible lime wash.
08:35And it's become like my sanctuary now.
08:38I can be up here, away from my friends when they're wreaking havoc downstairs,
08:43and get some rest.
08:46And now we're in the backyard of the house with really incredible landscaping
08:50designed by my friend Martha Stewart.
08:52She understands that I lead a very active, challenging life,
08:55lots of travel, very little time to use my green thumb.
08:59So she designed a house with lots of boxwoods, lots of roses, and lots of hydrangeas.
09:06Really simple upkeep.
09:07I was so excited when Douglas Friedman bought that charming wreck of a house in Long Island.
09:15I was glad that he was going to be a closer neighbor.
09:17And I looked around the grounds, and I thought,
09:20ah, I could really help him with this landscape.
09:24Simple, elegant, low maintenance.
09:28Not like Douglas, he's high maintenance, you know that.
09:32But I thought everything else he could handle.
09:35And the house turned out gloriously, as did Walensky.
09:41And then over here is an outdoor dining table designed by my friends at McKinnon and Harris.
09:47It's really beautiful stuff, incredibly well made by some brilliant artisans and craftsmen here in America.
09:58One of my favorite things about the backyard is that I'm starting to build a small sculpture collection back here.
10:04There's this piece by Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman.
10:07Actually, I grew up with this piece at her house because I was friends with her daughters.
10:11And it's kind of remarkable to me that it's wound up here.
10:14And then tucked back in this corner, these two guys made it back from Marfa, Texas.
10:19And it was not easy to get them here.
10:21It's by an artist called Brett Douglas Hunter, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
10:26You might have to censor these bits.
10:37Thank you for spending your time with me.
10:38Thank you for taking a look inside my home.
10:40I'm late, I've got a flight to catch.
10:42See ya.
10:45This is where I've changed my home byopp otras.
10:46I'm late, and I'll take this road around.
10:46I'm late for you.Sim".
10:50This is
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