It’s not everyday you walk into a home with a hidden speakeasy, rubber drapes, or a bedside Sturtevant.
Building a collection or developing an eye for design details as singular as these can take years, but the 11 interiors featured here offer a glimpse at what rewards lie ahead for the studious. Before our second annual CULTURED at Home issue hits newsstands this fall, we took a look back at the most interesting homes we’ve featured this summer.
Peek Inside Joe Jonas’s Art-Filled New York Apartment
With an extensive art collection and a trove of rare vinyl records to set a curated hi-fi mood, Jonas’s three-bedroom, four-bathroom property is complete with a crimson speakeasy, access to two pools, and floor-to-ceiling windows with 26-story-high views of the Manhattan Bridge. The 2,700-square-foot condo is located in the sail-shaped luxury tower Dumbo Olympia, a shorthand for Brooklyn luxury in recent years. The corner unit is more than enviable—and luckily, is on the market for $6.75 million.
Two of the Biggest Names in American Patronage Have Kept Their Homes Private—Until Now
A new coffee-table book, Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection, opens up Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman’s museum-worthy collection in their Sagaponack home—the beginning of a new chapter for the notoriously private couple. Their artist roster is a who’s who of the last 25 years, rating a private museum or a sculpture park: Jeff Koons, Derrick Adams, Cecily Brown, Jim Hodges, and on and on it goes. “I recently had the realization that I’ve not yet sold anything. But as I get older, it’s more likely that some things will now start to get sold or given away to museums,” Glenn said. “This is probably the peak collection right now and the moment to document it.”
Bowties in Public, Rubber Curtains at Home: Inside the NYC Loft of a Revered Modernist Starchitect
The apartment where architect Robert A.M. Stern spent the final two decades of his life is on the market (listed at $4.5 million)—and with it, the history-loving, bow-tie-wearing architect’s punk side comes into view. “We did black rubber drapes and a red rubber bed skirt and all kinds of fun, weird details,” says Fawn Galli, a former assistant in Stern’s office who helped decorate his two-bedroom apartment in the Chatham, an Upper East Side brick-and-limestone building of his own design.
$3.75M Will Buy You This Rare Modernist Gem Tucked in the Hills of Los Angeles
Angeleno architect Martin Gelber’s quietly celebrated abode—completed in 1978 and tucked into Los Angeles’s architecturally significant Crestwood Hills neighborhood—is looking for its second owner. Listed for $3.75 million after an exacting restoration, the 3,700-square-foot residence stands as both a remarkably intact example of Southern California Late Modernism and the purest expression of Gelber’s belief that “architecture should enrich the joy and drama of living.”
How Ballroom Marfa Founder Fairfax Dorn Lives With Art
As an interior designer and co-founder of Texas gallery Ballroom Marfa, Fairfax Dorn understands something many novice collectors overlook: The impact of art changes depending on where it’s allowed to live. Within the polychrome rooms of her coastal escape in Sagaponack, Dorn has amassed a collection that rivals the shows she supports. There, pieces by Rashid Johnson, Richard Tuttle, Marina Perez Simão, Elizabeth Neel, and Raymond Pettibon live amongst the eclectic interiors, a far cry from a white cube’s sterile surfaces.
Meredith Virnig on How to Build an Adventurous Art Collection Without Alienating Your Partner
The philanthropist has built a dynamic collection of emerging art with her husband, software investor Chip Virnig. Virnig fills her home with an amalgamation of emerging artists, from Jeppe Hein, to Ruby Sky Stiler, to Cam Caldwell. Next up: continuing into the backyard of her new Miami Beach house.
Collector Patrick Collins Is More Than Happy to Audition to Buy the Art He Wants
The 46-year-old builds a collection around difficult, historic, and conceptual works that span his Dallas and New York homes. Collins, the head of a family investment office, doesn’t have his own museum—yet. But he does own art that would be right at home in one. In his brief collecting career, he has charmed his way into buying historic work, such as Robert Gober’s 1988 piece Untitled, that most collectors would dismiss as too challenging or complex.
What Do Basketball Stars Talk About in the Locker Room? Fine Art, According to Kevin Love
Between Olympic medals and offensive rebounds, the Utah Jazz power forward has found time for a lesser-known pursuit: amassing an enviable art collection. The trove features a roster of all-star artists of the last century, from Ed Ruscha and George Condo to Rashid Johnson. Discovering that fellow NBA stars Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James were also in the game may have set Love on the path, but advisor Jane Suitor and dealer Vito Schnabel have helped him carve out a niche all his own.
What Kind of Art Does an Obama-Era Diplomat Collect?
Alexa L. Wesner, a former ambassador to Austria appointed by President Obama, spent years thinking carefully about what art communicates and to whom. The experience—including showing work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the ambassador’s Vienna residence, as part of the Art in Embassies program—expanded her understanding of collecting beyond the personal. Today, the DC native dwells in Aspen, where her home, designed by local architecture and interior design firm Rowland+Broughton, holds an enviable collection built over decades through personal relationships and diplomatic postings.
For Deborah Beckmann, the Most Beneficial Thing a Collector Can Gift an Artist Is Time
At their homes in LA and Aspen, Beckmann and her husband Jacob Kotzubei live among works by a who’s who of post-war and contemporary art: Nairy Baghramian, Firelei Báez, Charles Gaines, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, and Lisa Yuskavage among them. As a board member of Art21 and the Aspen Art Museum, Beckmann also sends pieces from their collection cross-country to feature in canon-shaping exhibitions.
Discover the Mapplethorpe Snapshot of Peter Berlin Hiding in This São Paulo Gallerist’s Bedroom
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel gallerist Alexandre Gabriel’s ceiling at home holds as many treasures as his walls. Gabriel lives in Praça da República, one of downtown São Paulo’s most charged and culturally layered neighborhoods, where historic architecture, nightlife, and independent art spaces collide. The atmosphere—raw and emergent—mirrors his approach to collecting. Before becoming a gallerist with footholds across Brazil and the international fair circuit, Gabriel built lasting relationships with artists, many of whom still shape his daily life today.
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