which famous new yorker has the best living room?

haven't decided which one is my favorite (tho the aujla family is the leader in the clubhouse).

of course scorsese's living room looks like that!

So many of these just look like fancy waiting rooms

von Furstenberg and Scorsese disqualified for having portraits of themselves

At first glance I like Chloe Sevigny’s

von Furstenberg and Scorsese disqualified for having portraits of themselves

but reverend al gets a pass? sarah squirm also has a raggedy ann doll of herself in hers

Both disqualified

Colson Whitehead's room was the first to grab me.

At first glance I like Chloe Sevigny’s

yeah, me too.. it looks like she couldn't give a shit that the new yorker is coming to photograph her living room, zero tidying up

Voted Chloe S. because i covet that Rita Ackermann painting.

tough call but I gotta go with the Aujlas, can't beat an interior designer for um interior design

runnerup Sarah Sherman

wtf: "con artist"??

I understand why TVs are meticulously cropped out of every shot, but anyone without visible books is immediately disqualified

haha fair

altho I feel like Maya Lin at least should get a pass there

I wanna hang out with Agnes Gund, just to hear her tell stories

wtf: "con artist"??

that's literally what she is

I remain blissfully ignorant

I like Al Sharpton's dog prison

everyone seems so sad & dejected to be in their own living room. narrowing it down to non-frowning book owners I guess I'm split btw Sevigny and Laila Gohar.

I like Emily Ratajatkowski’s kid’s octopus, which gives me an excuse to post my son’s octopus

https://imgur.com/a/874JlW1

I def noticed the dog prison xxp

AOC needs some hooks.

Scorsese place looks like the most comfy spot to hang out and drink an old fashioned

People who wear shoes indoors are the most disgusting savages in the world imo

OTM

Voting Sarah Sherman as I have the exact same sheet of Wacky Packages, framed in my living room as well.

I'm a disgusting savage then

more than half of these are really self-conscious / showy or exhibit exhausting taste especially for a living room, which begs the question what is a living room for, and surely these are filling different functions for the owners.

my personal favs are:

colson whitehead's actually looks inviting and private.
i have a soft spot for steinhem's. the bric-a-brac is beautiful. lovely colors. idk it just feels really pretty to me in a pure sort of way.
aoc's is very aoc and good i think.
i like ratajkowski's, strong taste statements but still lived-in

the ones with minimal or unstructured furniture are exhausting for me in a different direction - furniture is good.

spike lee's feels like a barnes and noble.
the investor's sucks obviously, so does agnes gund's - how a room with so much tony modern art in it can feel so depressing idk, it's surely an achievement.

I def noticed the dog prison xxp

― sleeve, Monday, May 5, 2025 3:48 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i assumed grandchild prison. but as a man with an 11-month-old whose living room is basically a play gym, i would think that.

more than half of these are really self-conscious / showy or exhibit exhausting taste especially for a living room, which begs the question what is a living room for, and surely these are filling different functions for the owners.

many of these folks are surely rich enough to have a fancy "living room" for entertaining and a separate "family room" for actually hanging out

which would also explain lack of tvs

Gravitated towards comfort: Sarah Sherman, Colson Whitehead, AOC. I could relax there.

xp and for some it's obviously an extension of their work.

of the semi-private ones i like whitehead's, it's very "gentleman bachelor" in a comforting kind of way.

the williamsburg comedian, i should like that sort of thing in theory because it's the closest to my own living room experiences, but something about it feels date-rapey to me lol.

Conceptually, the Dare guy's was the most immediately appealing — a couch big enough to lie down on, and multiple stacks of books on the floor — but the couch looks uncomfortable. Whitehead's couch is much better; I could work from there. Mostly, though, looking at all of these places just reminded me that even if I had a ton of money I wouldn't want to live in New York. I'm convinced that if you showed me a full floor plan for at least half these places they'd be smaller than my apartment.

i kind of like lin-manuel's tbh

yeah it's nice!

his is the one i would most enjoy in my own home, i think

interesting that there are two fort greene apartments but nothing from park slope or brooklyn heights

hopefully the dare guy just moved in. maybe he bought the couch for this. same vibe with the restauranteurs. you know they don't spend much time there.

the only one that repulses me on a taste level is vickie paladino's. close in spirit to my mother's get-everything-from-tj-maxx ethos. some of these people are so monstrously rich i can't detect anything else going on.

makes sense since she is one of the very worst councilmembers in the city, who suggested that drivers use lasers to disrupt congestion zone tolling cameras

xp restaurateurs, hate that i know it's a typo know

xp yah she looks very maga to me

La Villa Strangio

Not as a favorite I just wanted to make the Rush joke

I really like Agnes Gund's but she's probably dealing with a higher level of wealth than anyone else in here

sherman's plank over the radiator to hold boombox is v relatable

wtf: "con artist"??

that's literally what she is

I remain blissfully ignorant

you may notice she is wearing an ankle monitor

Most relatable/can actually imagine having that living room: AOC and Laila Gohar/Ignacio Mattos
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, I like it edition: Chloe Sevigny, Gus Wenner/Elle Fanning, Agnes Gund
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, I hate it edition: Scorsese, Soros/Abedin

Voted for: Whitehead (honorable mention to the restaurateurs, that room looks cozy as hell but yeah not particularly lived in)

I really like Agnes Gund's but she's probably dealing with a higher level of wealth than anyone else in here

Alex Soros would like a word

also i know nothing about diane von furstenberg so i'm gonna guess it's vmic but holy crap at that wall art

“the best socialization consistently happens not in my common room, but in my balls"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80rHqHuToxQ

I think the Soros/Abedin one with the wall to floor windows looking out into the skyline looks really cool, but I don't think I could actually live there, not without going insane. I'd like to visit, though. I also voted for Sarah Sherman

If this works, the posted image herein will be of my own living room, thus explaining my love, and vote, for Casa Sherman:

https://i.imgur.com/xXUvGg6.jpeg

Nice space!

Throw in Chloe Sevigny and I would definitely vote for that.

thx!

Excluding Redman from this lineup unforgivable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNtKT9_1KXQ

xp: you got a nicer crib than redman!

Ha! Well, I don't think I can match the De La Casa Money Room but thanks!

I think part of why I like Chloe Sevigny’s is that it shares elements with my own living room: low furniture, red
couch, un-hung artwork

Maybe we should run a "livingrooms of ILX" thread haha.

henry your living room rules, nicer than many of the tasteless megamillionaires in this list

Emhoff’s giant stack of books annoys me - like clearly you’re never going to pull out that Murakami book (the only one i can identify) because your Jenga tower would collapse!

Also i want higher res pictures so i can better judge Emhoff and Sherman and Dare guy’s taste in books. I do like the vibe of Sherman’s place though.

just am expeirmet

https://tinypic.host/image/light-room.3UJnEU

ditto, not sure if this will work

https://imgur.com/a/living-room-GtC5lmQ

nope

https://imgur.com/a/living-room-GtC5lmQ

I could see your space from your first post. really nice!

yeah, I've never actually messed around with imgur, not entirely sure how to imbed

your pad looks great! I'd totally forgotten about tinypic, I used to use that all the time like twenty years ago

If this works, the posted image herein will be of my own living room, thus explaining my love, and vote, for Casa Sherman:

https://i.imgur.com/xXUvGg6.jpeg

― henry s, Thursday, May 8, 2025 10:48 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

dope! where do you live?

also seconding living rooms of ILX idea. WDYLL has been dead for years right?

Dan S, how big is that painting, and how did it arrive at your house? It's probably bigger than many a NYC studio apartment!

andy your place looks great too!

and dan’s! different vibe but very tasteful

thanks! yeah we should do a 'top pads of ILX' thread for sure

I really like Ratajkowski's couch - would vote for that as best furniture piece

The painting in my house is more than 11 feet wide and is 8 feet tall! Fortunately it is composed of two canvases that are bolted together. If you look closely there is a seam down the middle, so it was easy to get into the house.

I like your place henry s, there are a lot of interesting things to notice! I'm wondering what that little creature is sitting on the table to the right in your photograph

Thanks! That's a little wooden monkey wearing a fez:

https://i.imgur.com/YB45Eug.jpeg

'tis a house of creatures, great and small:

https://i.imgur.com/EFYMHce.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/esqvRrC.jpeg

10/10 chillable

goddamn everyones living rooms look great, i love living rooms

i would normally be shy to do this but feel like i've talked a lot shit on this thread so its only fair:

https://imgur.com/a/3VK0CSu

Whoah, nice MCM vibe! And a skylight! I f you have a cat, I bet they love that.

ty henry, yeah cat is snoozing just out of frame, ha. they have a love/hate relationship with the skylight bc it leaks like a sieve when it rains

and a franklin stove! that must be nice in the winter

How are all your living rooms so clean and tidy?!?!

the stove was nice until this winter when a huge crack busted open in the side! trust me, its a potemkin living room, barely held together with twine & chewing gum

who is gonna start the "which famous ilxor has the best living room?" thread

just wanted to chime in and say the wall paneling in colson whitehead and maya lin's stood out to me, makes it feel like idk an old library or something (which is kinda good? kinda bad?)

think that's called 'wainscoting'

oh interesting! whatever that is, scorsese has too much of it

also, can i just say

https://i.postimg.cc/vHzxXRq9/Capture.png

https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Nathan-Fielder-next-to-doory-city-in-The-Rehearsal.jpg

Christ you all have such clean and tidy living rooms :(

LOL sorry Em I missed you saying the same :D

I'll post ours but I'll need to wait for the forgiveness of daytime light to get a good pic. We keep... a very busy with things home.

I’m pretty sure Chloe S moved that painting into shot to make it more interesting, it looks very staged to me.

I also noticed the absence of plants - do weird! Which is why I love the Aujila room.

Not arguing with you, but Chloe is very good friends with artist of said painting.

Voted Sarah Sherman for Garbage Pail Kids card collection.

One Eye Open, your place looks really great, too!

Chase Strangio for best accessory

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