Inside Rachel Brosnahan’s Art-Filled New York Home - Open Door - Architectural Digest

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