Inside Patrick Dempsey's Malibu Home Designed by Frank Gehry | Architectural Digest

[Music] it's great to be here today with Architectural Digest to be a part of this shoot is the second ream come true [Music] as a Frankie rehome and it was really an artist's loft was built in the late 60s early 70s I'm very fortunate to be really a caretaker of this house the house is remarkable and it changes throughout the course of the day because of the light and how the light plays a big big part of the aesthetic when I first sought the house I thought it was really important to reach out to talk to Frank Gehry and to get his experience of making the house and and why he designed it and all that and invited him up to have a drink and we were having a party and he sat up in the upper loft and he said this is my favorite spot and this was a big big transition for him because it was his first time to really build a home but not a home but a studio the way he wanted to and certainly the choice of material with the according eight of ten was revolutionary at the time it started off with a small little horse shed and they took that idea and ran with it in the expanded it the notion is that the interior can change for the need of the artist or whoever is working in here but the exterior will statement the same my favorite part of this room is really the wood it's as a practical reason as well because it's so loud in here because of the Italian classroom the kids once it all gets ramped up and the volume gets really high it can be deafening so this helps to sort of bring it down and help to quiet the house it was never really designed for a family so you have to make modifications but what's great about it is you know where everybody is in the house at any one given moment so there's no separation you don't lose your kids or you lose anybody which is nice I like the intimacy even with the great volume that you have here trying to design and decorate a house like this is very very challenging because I think it looks great with nothing in it but you want to be comfortable and you want it to be warm and I think sometimes with a lot of modern homes they look great but they're not warm you don't want to sit down and this is a family home and we wanted to be inviting and comfortable and casual and relaxed so you're not uptight about things especially with kids you just can't worry about it's giving you no stains on them or things like that well because this is an artist lofts I think it inspires a lot of people to be creative and it's nice to see this space being used in that way and certainly with the kids up in the loft where they're painting or sculpting it's really nice to see that is really what this house is about it's about creativity and people that come through the artists to come through it's nice to see them get inspired by it and they inspire us as well and then the LAN is another important thing it's really to be connected to the land I grew up in the country and I think that's really when you find your Center is outside in the land and interacting with the trees and the plants and the animals certainly we have four mini donkeys eastern-western sticks and mabel a tortoise named clover a pig named Hank two goats in tons of chickens and three dogs so it's good it's nice that the kids have this and they have this space that's protected and they can go off and have their private time and explore on their own and my daughter too Lou has really embraced the garden and it spends a lot of time up there either cutting flowers or cutting the vegetables and then bringing them down and cooking I think that to me gives me so much satisfaction to know that she's doing that and it's fun here I mean it's a like I said you're a caretaker of a house and you have to be very careful to nurture it and sustain it and hand it on to someone else eventually you

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Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 29 2014