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Emilie and Jeff Goldblum welcome Architectural Digest inside their beautifully redesigned Los Angeles guest house. From Jeff's piano room and creative office to Emilie's custom gym and aerial training space, the couple worked with Barbara Bestor and Zeb and Crunk to create a colorful, playful, and completely personalized space right in their backyard.
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00:00Like a beat beat beat with a sound of...
00:03Hey look who's sneaking up on us. Do you see this? Hello? I think that's A.D.
00:07Hello A.D.
00:09Hi A.D. Welcome to our guest house.
00:11Guess what? We're gonna take you for a little spin, but first,
00:15lets you and I slip into something a little more comfortable, shall we?
00:18Oh, I'd like that.
00:18Okay. What goes on in my phone?
00:32Uh, yes, yes, they're already in Scots. It's A.D. again.
00:35Hey, look at us. We're in our comfortable clothes.
00:38Yeah, cozy. For the tour.
00:40Yes, for the tour of our guest house, which this is. Come.
00:43Come for our guest house.
00:44Come.
00:53So, this is the guest house that we're in.
00:55It's had many functions. You know, the guy who owned this before was Claude Ravier,
01:00from whom I bought it, and it was a kind of a...
01:03People said, oh, I've been at parties at your house.
01:05There were pinball machines, I think, in this room.
01:08Yes, and a kind of a wet bar.
01:10And, you know, there was a lot of activity here.
01:13And then we did tap classes in here.
01:14We scuffed up the wooden floor terribly.
01:18Then we kind of fixed it up, because this was like a whole play space.
01:22Before any movie or play, I would have constant, habitual, routine rehearsals here.
01:28We'd have acting classes here.
01:29We came on to Barbara Bester, the greatest architect and designer here in L.A.
01:34Amazing team.
01:35And what a great team.
01:35Barbara introduced us to Zeta Krunk.
01:37Oh, Zeta Krunk, yes.
01:38Who helped with all of the interior design.
01:40And then thinking about the function for the boys, for all our needs,
01:45your performance and creative and artistic needs.
01:48We're also trying to figure a way to contain them.
01:51Because, you know, once you start having children, they take over.
01:54Oh, yes.
01:55Yeah, you know that movie, The Blob?
01:56You ever see The Blob?
01:57Yeah.
01:57Steve McQueen's first movie, yeah.
01:59This space, pictured in our minds, like, oh, maybe we'll put on plays here.
02:02Because with the kids, Jeff plays piano.
02:05I'm an aerialist, contortionist dancer.
02:07And maybe we'll have a dinner party and we can all, like, come in and dance and recite a sonnet
02:11or two.
02:12This whole door behind you is open in a different way.
02:17Indoor, outdoor.
02:18Which will allow for a connection between us and the outside and this place, too.
02:24There wasn't a door there before at all.
02:26It just really invites our outdoor courtyard, which was also redone with the stone and Terramato.
02:34Did all the landscaping.
02:36So gorgeous to look at.
02:38We just moved the piano around today and I have a notion that we could use this.
02:45You know, I played the piano a little bit and we were fooling around on this before.
02:48I have a cozy little flat in what is known as old Manhattan will settle down right here in town.
03:00Yeah, very good, very good.
03:01I have a song for every occasion.
03:03Yeah, yeah, that's true.
03:04Every idea.
03:05No, that's it.
03:06And that's the show.
03:07Get out of here, A.D.
03:08We've told you too much.
03:13I never saw this big cherry before, but I love it.
03:16We should, we might buy that.
03:19I do remember showing the swatches to Charlie, our eldest son, and he was really into it.
03:26I think he really collaborated and then we were like, let's go show to dad.
03:30Like, let's make sure he's on board.
03:31I love all the colors.
03:32It just makes me so happy.
03:34My sister, Pam, painted this.
03:37I've had this for a long time, but this is me.
03:39This is taken from a photograph of me and our first dog, Ginger.
03:43Yeah.
03:44I'm like about eight there.
03:46Cute.
03:46Little boxer briefs.
03:48It's so cute.
03:51Come to the Blue Room.
03:52Isn't there a song in the Blue Room?
03:54We're passing this glorious.
03:55We have to look at the ceramic bow hooks because I adore them.
03:59They're just so darling.
04:00I sure do.
04:01So cute.
04:02Oh my gosh.
04:03Hi.
04:03Oh look.
04:04So this is not staged exactly.
04:06This is our production.
04:07You're your crew here.
04:09Here we are.
04:10You tell them about this room here.
04:13This is like the guest bedroom.
04:15So there's some closet space.
04:17But what's so cool, because it's a smaller space, this is a Murphy bed.
04:23So it literally folds all the way back up.
04:26It's a flat wall after that.
04:27But it looks really pretty.
04:27It looks like.
04:28Oh boy.
04:28Okay.
04:29Hang on.
04:29There you go.
04:31Okay.
04:31Yeah.
04:32See how strong I am?
04:34You impressed me.
04:35I know.
04:36I'm not going to tangle with her.
04:37I'll tell you that.
04:38But you'll tango with me.
04:40And then there's a beautiful bathroom.
04:42But what's also cool about this bathroom.
04:45So yes, there's an indoor shower.
04:47But then on the other side of it is our outdoor shower.
04:51So that when we're hosting like a pool party.
04:53It's outdoor, like after you go in the pool, which we have out there.
04:56Yeah.
04:56They can go rinse off, shower outside in the fresh air, I think.
05:02We're so lucky.
05:02This is all too luxurious, but I'll never not appreciate it.
05:13They redid this window.
05:14It's bigger.
05:15You can see the sky.
05:16It's a gorgeous window.
05:18I like this runner thing.
05:21Oh my gosh.
05:22It reminds me of the stars.
05:23It reminds me of like a sky at night, just like twinkling stars.
05:27The house used to be filled with Pam's, my sister's art all over the place on every square
05:32inch of the wall.
05:32But you said, oh, I like this particular one.
05:35I just love the size of it.
05:37It's so big.
05:39And then girl, she's so beautiful.
05:41All of it.
05:41It's just this character from bygone era.
05:44That's just so beautiful.
05:46A little bit classical with a little whimsy and irony.
05:50And that's me again.
05:51It's just like the Watts Tower or La Tour Eiffel.
05:55So these are my parents that Pam did once again from a wood block.
06:00So guys, we'll clear all of it.
06:03I love.
06:06We didn't introduce you to our art piece.
06:09They're always in our house.
06:11They're kind of an installation, a living art piece.
06:13Sometimes you find them here, sometimes there.
06:15And they just move around a little bit.
06:16They don't speak.
06:18I like it a lot.
06:19Now, oh, so here's you.
06:21I'm not the only one pictured around these parts.
06:25These are my brothers who are sadly no longer with us.
06:29I think this picture is taken from us on a vacation in Atlantic City.
06:33We used to drive from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Atlantic City,
06:36the four of us kids, and we'd dress up.
06:39I would dress up.
06:40There are pictures of me, probably not around here,
06:42of me with a shirt and a tie and a coat on like we did.
06:49Nick Massey and shine a light on us, Nick Massey.
06:52Give us a second.
06:53Paul Cornett.
06:55All right.
07:00I'll tell you very quickly about this bathroom.
07:03This was airspace.
07:05There was no such room before Barbara Bester's architecture went to work.
07:11And here it is.
07:12I never wanted to shy away from colors, even though sometimes it made me nervous,
07:17thinking like, is it going to turn out well?
07:18Is it going to read?
07:19But that's why you have Barbara, because you can trust that it's going to turn out great.
07:23I love this bathroom.
07:24Yeah.
07:24As much as you can, a human being can love a bathroom.
07:28If I wasn't already married, I'd marry this bathroom.
07:30But I've spoken for.
07:33You're so funny.
07:34Oh, thank you.
07:45I'm going to try not to gush, because this is kind of a room that I have a lot of
07:51interest in.
07:51It's been used for many things over the years.
07:54Once in our era, I started to, you know, come up here and I'd take a nap here.
08:01It would be alternative, you know, and with the kids here.
08:03I never had kind of a place to really have an office.
08:07And this is the one part on the property that faces the hills.
08:11And this wall, can you imagine, had no window at all.
08:14This was nothing.
08:15So this room was not light like this at all.
08:17And there was no view onto these hills.
08:20And it's cool.
08:21You kept saying that, like, when I build the rig, that you can watch me while you're working.
08:26And now look what's out there.
08:27There's not only the hills, but there's that rig that you have seen her on.
08:31Yeah.
08:31Can you imagine that?
08:32I just feel like the whole energy in here is very calm.
08:35Listen to how quiet right now.
08:37Yeah.
08:39It's really quiet here.
08:40It's just fantastic.
08:42And then you have your fender roads.
08:43So you can come and practice.
08:44Well, and then I wanted another piano up here, because if the boys are playing their piano,
08:48I sometimes need to do my work immediately and at the sand simultaneously.
08:54And I've had this Fender Rhodes since the 70s.
08:57I bought it when it was new.
08:59A lot of people know this as a delightful item.
09:06I love this desk.
09:08I feel like this really does suit you and really does make sense in the practical sense of it.
09:14I need a place to work.
09:14Like, you need to write.
09:15Look at this place to work.
09:15Look at me looking at it.
09:17This is a nice corner of the world.
09:19Yeah.
09:19And then this heavy paperweight was also done by my sister as of a dinosaur, you know,
09:24in my connection to dinosaurs.
09:25Yeah.
09:25And so there's that.
09:27And, you know, there's this.
09:30I'm kind of a little bit of a freak for the right pen.
09:32Minimalist.
09:33Yeah.
09:33And so the ballpoint pen, and I've chosen a couple of ballpoint pens here that I particularly
09:37like.
09:37And I think I used this on criminal intent because I was playing a detective and I could
09:43put this in any kind of pocket with a little notepad and go, yes.
09:47And, uh-huh.
09:48Uh-huh.
09:49I think this is what happened there.
09:51Very good, you know.
09:52Why are you so cute?
09:53I can't stand it.
09:54I'm reenacting you.
09:56You're a doll.
09:57Well, and lamps.
09:58I'm crazy about lamplight, you know.
10:01Oh.
10:01It's not plugged in.
10:02It's not plugged in.
10:02That's okay.
10:03I love it.
10:04Melody Gardeau just gave me that.
10:06Melody Gardeau is a great singer with whom our band recorded this song, Misty.
10:10I think it could go right there.
10:13Look, look, look how it fits right there.
10:14P.G.
10:15Woodhouse.
10:15We love to read those.
10:17I've read all of P.G.
10:17Woodhouse.
10:18These things are meaningful to me.
10:19And this is one of the original, you know, this looks like a first edition of a P.G.
10:23Woodhouse thing.
10:23And that's nice to have there.
10:25My sister did that.
10:26This is, you know, Isle of Dogs.
10:28That's my character, Duke.
10:29Also the boys' favorite movie of yours.
10:32They love.
10:32They rewatched that movie a lot.
10:34That's true.
10:34Charlie made this.
10:35He's like a-
10:36Lego.
10:36He's a Lego champion.
10:39Your Culturistas award.
10:40Bo and Yang.
10:41Here's my Jeffermations book, you know.
10:43Okay, tell me when to stop.
10:44What?
10:46Stop.
10:47Okay, left or right?
10:48Right.
10:49Okay.
10:49I would say to you, don't sweat the small stuff.
10:53Still, a little deodorant never hurt anybody.
10:55Really?
10:57I think I smell pretty good.
10:59You do smell.
11:00You always smell.
11:01I don't know about you though.
11:03I'm so sorry for that.
11:05I apologize for my wife.
11:06I'm kidding.
11:07We'll hash this out later.
11:10This would be from our first album, Jeff Goldblum, The Mildred Scenzer Orchestra.
11:15My sister did that.
11:17It's Louis Armstrong and an alien.
11:19She would pair different, you know, things together.
11:22That's me in the center there at Frank Sinatra's house for our second album, I believe.
11:30We went and shot the cover at Frank Sinatra's house in Palm Springs.
11:34Oh, hey, that's kind of interesting.
11:36Those four portraits on the end.
11:38That's me and my two brothers and sister.
11:41And that my sister did.
11:42It's a kind of a collage of me at the piano and Scarlett Johansson.
11:47And she sang a song on our album.
11:49I think these pictures are a nice little, you know, grouping above your bed.
11:54Not to mention, how about that for a chair?
11:56That wing chair.
11:57I've always hankered after something like that.
12:00And that substantial gorgeous orange and white striped thing.
12:06Oh my gosh, that I use.
12:08I put my glasses on there and a book or this and that.
12:10Yeah, even I come up here sometimes and like just read.
12:13You do?
12:14Yeah.
12:14What a confession.
12:15I never realized it.
12:17Why you think it's just your room?
12:19Well, as long as you know the password.
12:22Do you know the password to get into this room?
12:25Fidelio.
12:26Fidelio, that's correct.
12:27Yeah, it's from Eyes Wide Shut.
12:28Yeah, she knows the password.
12:37You tell them what's here because this was kind of to her specifications.
12:41And to mine, I have certain needs that this meets beautifully.
12:44The equipment you needed.
12:45But that workout bench, I was a little nervous because it felt a little bubblegum.
12:49But I feel like it really works with the grounding of the floor.
12:53And then the equipment, like how it's pink.
12:56It worked beautifully, especially with the mirrors.
12:58There's like a tint of pink in them.
13:00And then the sconces on the wall, they have pink and red.
13:04And then the shades are pink.
13:06I like it pink.
13:07But I also love this wall.
13:08I actually use this wall a lot for my handstands.
13:12And this is a really important ladder for contortionists and acrobats.
13:17So I use that a lot for stretching.
13:19And then over here, this is kind of cool because I like how it folds in and out.
13:25So you have a little bit different range for like if you're doing a pull-up or if you're just
13:32doing like leg raises, you know.
13:34If you're just doing leg raises, you would just do.
13:36This is what she was doing when we first met.
13:38Up like that.
13:39Something like that.
13:39But I went over to her at the Equinox on Sunset and said, what are you doing?
13:45There wasn't this big window.
13:47But there are these nice pink shades.
13:49And then this has a great, great view of downtown LA.
13:52Yeah.
13:52Like that.
13:52If you want, we can show you that.
13:54Do you like that?
13:54Or do you like that?
13:55Or do you like that?
13:56We can put it back down.
13:57But look.
13:58Look what they gave us.
14:00Look.
14:00One of these things.
14:01We're just very lucky.
14:03You chose the wrong one.
14:04That's just hard.
14:05That's not going to do it.
14:06Okay.
14:07Okay.
14:08Yeah.
14:09So there's that one.
14:10But if you do it, if you do it.
14:11You really want to do it.
14:12You know, I always like the clicker.
14:14I get nervous if I don't have my hands on the clicker.
14:17And so, and there's that one going up.
14:18So here.
14:19So I kind of like it like this.
14:20You like it.
14:21You like to control the light and have it kind of all like this.
14:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:25Look how substantial this is so you don't fall out of there.
14:28And I think this is a lock.
14:30Look at this.
14:31Look at this.
14:31Look how.
14:32This is just great.
14:33It's really great.
14:35And it goes all the way.
14:36You get a cross breeze with that window over there.
14:38Yeah.
14:39Oh boy.
14:40You feel that?
14:41Even though it's balmy out.
14:42Yeah.
14:42I like that.
14:44And look at the view.
14:45As you're on the treadmill, you work it downtown.
14:49I'll spend hours in here once in the morning.
14:52And then if I'm lucky in the afternoon.
14:55And then the boys come home from school and then they run up here.
14:58And sometimes they'll jump up there and try to like, Mama, look, I can do a pull up.
15:03And then Jeff likes to walk.
15:06That's it.
15:07I'm a spent force.
15:08Oh, that's my cardio for the day.
15:18But it starts open.
15:19It starts open.
15:20It starts open.
15:20I listen to directions much better than my husband.
15:23Throw me under the bus.
15:24Throw me under the bus.
15:25Throw me under the bus.
15:25With the baby in the backwater.
15:26The wheels on the bus go round and round.
15:29Right over Jeff.
15:30And there he goes.
15:32Okay, he's flat as a pancake.
15:33No, that's okay.
15:34Hey, A.D.
15:36It's been, this has been a great, great honor.
15:37What a red-leaded day for us.
15:39Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
15:40Yeah, it's been spectacular.
15:41A.D., we have to say goodbye to an ally.
15:44I gotta get cooking.
15:46Really?
15:46Yeah, make some dinner.
15:47Yeah.
15:48And I've got places to go, people to see.
15:50We have much to do.
15:51And I'm sure you do too, much more than us.
15:54Bye, A.D.
15:54Thank you so much for coming, really.
15:56We appreciate it.
16:00No hand goodbye.
16:01Wait.
16:02No, not me.
16:05You just had to be the last one.
16:07I was like, wait, I can get a little.
16:09I can't read the last word.
16:10There she goes, goodbye.
16:11Get out.
16:12Get out.
16:12Get out.
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