At Home in Los Angeles with Suzanne Rheinstein

[Music] [Applause] [Music] there's a piano in the entry I okay I've ever seen this I love this well it's large pistons in 1929 Chickering and it's the only became from my husband's now my end it's the only place it would fit so it's perfect because now whenever we have a party we have this wonderful sort of jazz pianist playing when people come in there and they love it you know access party welcome there's something about this house there's a graciousness here that you don't see often in homes anymore it doesn't mean that it feels dated in any way but there's a an old-fashioned elegance that just feels it just is so special well you know it's been a really comfortable place to have a family and can accommodate a lot of people with different interests so this house is really like a scrapbook of our lives together and some things came from my mother who had a shop in New Orleans and because yes and then many things came from the house where my late husband grew up like this Georgian mantelpiece which his parents bought when they built it in the late 20s it really worked in New York so and then you know I bought this beautiful collage by an Iranian / California artist and in this room also has the pastimes of women that I've always loved from the 18th century and and then that beautiful Charles Garabedian collage and painting which I bought with the last money I made when I was as a television producer when I was even half months pregnant and she did that makes perfect sense yeah you know already decorated you're already investing I hope I Russ and my husband didn't really at that point like more contemporary paintings and so I wanted to do it with my own money while still had it these screens that this pair of screens I've seen in so many pictures over the years and in your books and it's they always dazzled me and it's such a privilege to get to see them up close they're even more beautiful than I imagined thank you well it's oh it was all Chinese wallpaper that my husband's parents put in the house they built and then when they finally moved out of that house they brought it with them and then when his mother died we all got panels of it because everyone loved it I used to have in the summertime these striped slipcovers on everything and then a couple of years ago I went to put them on and they needed help so that's when I was just coming out with this color of my garden roses so I decided to do all of that in the garden roses and I loved it so much that I don't even take them off in the winter so now you just keep it necessity is the mother of invention I love them and garden roses I worked on with a team at Alli Java because I use so many of their hand printed fabrics on the wrong side I love that mellow look so I wanted to do something that was you want some of that but more affordable because those are so gorgeous and worth it but not everyone has that can't spend that money and it's also scary spending that money and then and living the fact not even that you think the side that you're supposed to get so anyway we came up with this and this is one of my new ish color ways and then now I have these other ones that are just coming out so this almost you really did this to mimic the look of the backside of the textile as it sort of been your signature of doing but yes my real sign for it to be just more nuanced then I like your word of mellow yes it was just mellow yes and I should we feel like we could be in a home in New Orleans I think we could it's formal but it's not Stef absolutely ours is that I love a certain formality but perhaps not all the falter all that goes with it it's coming foe without being stuffy yeah that's what that's right okay so Stacy I hope you're able to hold the camera steady because this is her obsession a table tie look at these collections I bet you use everything all the time after you in also can we open because I just think these are so beautiful idea they want to see oh my gosh remember we bought these something like 35 years ago this wonderful iron stone yeah you don't overly worried do you if something as much as these are precious do you use them and now in my Thome of I raise your interesting choice that the fact some people would have the reverse that the cabinet's would be in this rich red and then the the trim would be in this color I like how you've done it well I did it because you know it at that time I was studying all things Georgian and legends I was just very interested in architecture but mostly how people lived within them and I remember reading that drab everything the back of the house was painted drab because they took the leftover bits of expensive paint put it together and came out with the color that was and that's why you gotta add you to drop from driv well you say I don't know but it was called drab and so I found a color that I thought was drab and then I've always loved Turkey red which was used a lot in early America and it highlights is this wonderful backdrop to your collections look at this floor to floor oh yes I used colors that was sort of drab and then this wonderful turkey red and it almost looks like what people wish they could have as a as a rug or a floor covering but it's just painted wood yeah this painted wood I'm big painted floor person so believe it or not I use it a lot well certainly when my family's here from New York the three girls and the parents and we all have breakfast in here because it gets wonderful light oh that's lovely so you actually use your dining room not just for dinners and entertaining but for breakfast I'd certainly don't give as many sit-down formal dinners as I did when I was first married or whatever but I still love using everything and give lots we did give lots and I still do give some kind of buffay's I put everything out so forget all my different mismatched beautiful plates from all the relatives who never threw anything away and and it's wonderful so I feel like I used the whole house so can I ask you about the birds yes I've never seen like it's almost like a wallpaper is I wanted to hang it like a wallpaper because they're all watercolors free drawn and painted but how did you find so many because there was a dealer that I knew who had come to Los Angeles and I bought these for the shop because I love them and then I found out a lot of people don't like birds so then I felt well I can use them and I loved it I'm never tired of them all the flowers that you did today are so beautiful around the house look at these we're not going yeah thank you I grew up orange ranunculus but you know today most people have blast cylinders and then they use very expensive flowers in it like peanut you serve lilies or whatever so I like to spend the money on unusual containers these from from about 1820 Oh with the tops where you can put things so you did the reverse yes are nice downstairs and then I like and then I like to get supermarket flowers see now look at these gorgeous for an oculus I know you were obsessed with cruel yes thank you I am so this is one of favor accruals that I did for the Java which is sadly discontinued however I loved it so much I'm going to show you one of my tricks please impart your yes smell is so loved and just change does need to cover and then this just take a nice throw then put it on there we've always used this garden and someone must in a city right you don't have room just to look at go fellows so places to have dinner parties them if just places to be and around the pool is what you use that amazing urea for by that great tree that is so quiet in there it's really nice to have a dinner party I did have a daybed in there at one time no dude I love that way but I think you never use it because you're so on the go and so energetic I bet you never have like you just fit the sometimes [Music] [Applause] don't miss another video visit click on the orange cue to subscribe and have quintessence virtually 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Keywords: Los Angeles, Suzanne Rheinstein, at home with, interior design, Quintessence, Hancock Park, decorating, collecting, antiques, Quintessence video series, Susanna Salk, decor, design video, interior design video, how to decorate, home tour, tastemaker, decorating ideas

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Length: 10min 29sec (629 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 17 2019