With continually new leisure initiatives, collectively produced product strains and two younger kids at house, inside designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent get pleasure from lots, say, lots of time. However in the case of non-public assignments, the duo tends to stay with their unbiased design studios. “We solely work collectively for particular clients,” explains Brent succinctly. Fortuitously, Brian Robbins, the CEO and President of Children & Household Leisure at ViacomCBS, and his spouse Tracy James, a wardrobe stylist and clothes designer, greater than meet the standards of the particular. The couple met when Berkus and Brent have been designing a Los Angeles house in Hancock Park for Robbins, James, their child daughter Stella, and Robbins’ sons Justin and Miles from a earlier marriage. They have been thick as thieves ever since.
“To be trustworthy, we think about them household. After we exit to eat, Brian and I are the 2 little Jews who stuff hamburgers into our mouths whereas Jeremiah and Tracy giggle over salads and ice chips on the opposite facet of the desk, ”says Berkus. James paints an identical image in barely softer tones: “We’ve got change into very emotionally hooked up to them, particularly round our youngsters,” she says.
Brian Robbins and Tracy James (with a self-designed caftan) with their daughter Stella and Robbins sons Miles and Justin within the kitchen. Classic Stilnovo pendant lamp from Rewire. Style styling by Eric Archibald.
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Following the siren name of the LA actual property market, Robbins and James finally swapped their residence in Hancock Park for a contemporary spruce home designed by architect Paul McClean within the fashionable Trousdale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills. The construction is a slim, degree composition of travertine-clad partitions, oak ceilings and metal columns and eaves. The construction is entered by way of an enormous door between rusting metal grilles paying homage to the latticework of the numerous historic mid-century homes within the space.
“The home seems to be stable from the road, however turns into extra clear while you stroll by way of it,” says McClean, describing the procession by way of an entrance courtyard, over a glass bridge, into the principle social room of the home and again out to the pool and the gorgeous view of the gorge, which unfolds behind it. “The view is unbelievable, so all of nature turns into a inexperienced oasis. The dismantling of obstacles to nature has been a theme of Californian structure for 100 years, ”provides the architect.
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Big glass slides with pockets blur the strains between inside and outdoors in a dramatic type, giving the house the texture of a modernist out of doors pavilion. “When my dad visited, his massive remark was, ‘Your home has no partitions,’” Robbins remembers, laughing. McClean supported the pavilion impact by overlapping the main bedroom and pool in order that the bed room seems to be floating.
Stella and James (in a Stella McCartney costume) within the playroom. Classic Bengt Lundgren chairs pull as much as a desk designed by Leanne Ford for Crate and Barrel. Wallpaper by Flat Vernacular, wall panels lined with Designers Guild material.
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In the principle toilet, a Nickey Kehoe make-up stool, Marc Phillips rug, and Speakman fittings be part of an vintage Swedish cupboard.
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“Brian and Tracy’s final home was a Tudor home with out a lot daylight. So the query was, ‘How do you convey a vivid, modern spirit right into a home with conventional bones?’ Right here the problem was rotated – we wished to convey a sense of heat and cosiness right into a pristine, fashionable house, ”explains Brent. Berkus, predictably, has his personal opinion: “They did not need to go for Neutra,” he jokes. “They did not desire a room with three good items of recent furnishings.” As a substitute, the designers staged an unpretentious, decade-long symphony of stylish, eminently comfy furnishings, lots of which have been reused from the house owner’s former house.
Berkus and Brent’s greatest strikes have been redesigning the kitchen with new bronze cupboards and floating cabinets, and changing a reflective pool within the underground space with a leafy Japanese backyard. Extra refined gestures all through the home have been calculated so as to add intimacy and texture to particular areas with out overshadowing the integrity of the structure. The designers lined the 4 partitions of the eating room with suede curtains and lined a visitor rest room with a paint paying homage to Venetian mortar. In addition they turned the lounge on the decrease degree into a very alluring grownup playroom that’s awash in black plaster, Nero Marquina marble, and bronze detailing. “This room is the yin to yang of the remainder of the home. It is the right place for an after-dinner assembly, ”says James, who can be launching a set of ethereal silk and vacation clothes of the identical identify subsequent spring.
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Within the breakfast room, a Jérôme Pereira pendant lamp by Stahl + Band hangs above a custom-made desk with Ruemmler chairs with cushions in Cowtan & Tout material.
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Brian Robbins and Tracy James (with a self-designed caftan) with their daughter Stella and Robbins sons Miles and Justin within the kitchen.
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Within the household room in Brooklyn, the canine is sitting on a {custom} minimize made from Nice Plains material subsequent to a Hommés studio desk on a RH rug.
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The lounge features a Madsen and Schubell lounge chair and ottoman, classic seating by Afra and Tobia Scarpa and a Floris Wubben stool by The Future Excellent.
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William Haines Designs chairs flank a bleached oak pedestal desk on the main bedroom terrace.
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In the principle toilet, a Nickey Kehoe make-up stool, Marc Phillips rug, and Speakman fittings be part of an vintage Swedish cupboard.
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A portray by Mary Corse dominates the lounge, which is embellished with a mid-century Italian armchair from Hollywood at Dwelling, Pierre Guariche armchairs in Rose Tarlow material, a Hans-Agne Jakobsson chandelier and a desk by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier from Gallery. outfitted is half.
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Stella and James (in a Stella McCartney costume) within the playroom. Classic Bengt Lundgren chairs pull as much as a desk designed by Leanne Ford for Crate and Barrel. Wallpaper by Flat Vernacular, wall panels lined with Designers Guild material.
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The main bedroom extends over the pool and has a {custom} made cerused oak mattress wrapped in Pierre Frey material and lighting from the Nineteen Fifties. Panorama design by Kathleen Ferguson Landscapes.
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James, Robbins, daughter Stella and Robbins sons Miles and Justin loosen up within the breakfast room each indoors and outside.
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A murals by Ed Ruscha hangs over a mid-century oak cupboard in the lounge.
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In Stella’s bed room, wallpaper from Insurgent Partitions, a custom-made bunk mattress created from Designers Guild material, classic Italian slippers created from Rose Tarlow material, a stool from RH Child & Little one and a rug from Rugs by Roo.
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RH Trendy chairs populate the luxurious spa and wellness heart at house.
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Tracy James, sporting a costume from her upcoming assortment of silk attire and trip put on, goes for a stroll with the Goldendoodles Brooklyn and Pork Chop.
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Stella’s bed room, wrapped in wallpaper with a sample of pinkish-purple palm fronds, positively falls on the yang facet of the equation. Brent designed the bunk mattress as cheerful folly, wrapped in pink cotton velvet and completed with a Lucite handrail for a contact of Hollywood glamor. The identical cheerful vibe extends to Stella’s sprawling playroom, which features a rope swing and padded pink wall panels that mitigate potential collisions.
The ultimate piece of the pleasure puzzle is an opulent, marble-lined spa and wellness heart for the house, outfitted with a scorching tub, cedar sauna, and different facilities that add to blissful leisure and rejuvenation. “We positively use the spa lots, however however we use all of the rooms in the home,” says Robbins of his household retreat. “Between Paul’s structure and the heat and sweetness that Nate and Jeremiah dropped at the mission, I consider we discovered the recipe for home happiness.”
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