Art of Living: Leelee Sobieski in addition to Adam Kimmel's Tribeca Loft
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The lips were done yesteryear Leelee Herself!
Like most moms, I’m ever busy,” says Leelee Sobieski, taking a intermission at her neighborhood commons piece her duties every bit jungle-gym chaperone to two-and-a-half-year-old immature lady Louisanna (Lewi for short) are assumed yesteryear her husband, designer Adam Kimmel. “Giving Lewi a bath, buying milk, cleaning something, making only about decision, reading weird babe blogs, worrying I disciplined inward the incorrect way.” In other words, existence a mom, which she has to a greater extent than fourth dimension to do, having eased off acting projects for a while. And because Kimmel, too, is taking a hiatus from his eight-year-old menswear collection, he’s busy existence a dad. As a cool, creative pair amongst offbeat styles in addition to artistic friends, they tick off all the boxes of hipster New York, silent the agency they alive runs completely counter to that. Mornings are consumed yesteryear the park; engagement nights are spent similar most American couples’: at the movies. (The in conclusion was The Dictator.) When they remain home, which they practise a lot, Sobieski cooks. “I don’t follow directions, but I brand proficient experiments—they unremarkably take away a lot of cheese.”
The backdrop for all this normalcy is a 4,800-square-foot Tribeca loft Kimmel moved into inward 2007, filled amongst an extraordinary collection of works yesteryear Raymond Pettibon, George Condo, Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. doc Seuss), in addition to seminal figures—if non household names—of the 1960s Los Angeles fine art scene, similar John McCracken, Ken Price, in addition to John Altoon. “A bulk of what nosotros accept is from personal relationships,” says Sobieski. As a wedding ceremony gift, Dan Colen created the large sail covered inward lip prints that hangs inward the front end room. “I did all the kisses,” says Sobieski, who puckered upwardly inward to a greater extent than than twenty shades of Chanel in addition to Yves Saint Laurent lipsticks. “Dan said he uses entirely the best fine art materials.” And a spare chamber was for a piece referred to every bit “the George Herms room,” since the artist—whose collages business a wall close Lewi’s play area—was their get-go overnight guest. The other George inward their life, Condo, did the abstract painting The Internal Rage of Rodrigo, which hangs close the living area, in addition to also memorably collaborated amongst Kimmel on a casino-themed lookbook. “I was trading clothes for artwork at the time,” recalls Kimmel. Like her father, Jean Sobieski, Leelee is a passionate painter; she spent vii months of her pregnancy working on the enormous multicolored slice close Lewi’s teepee. “When I await at it I experience all these feelings nigh maternity in addition to existence inward dear amongst Adam,” she says. “It has the corniest things attached to it, but also it’s, like, life.”
Just every bit she in addition to Kimmel are taking the twelvemonth off, the same could last said nigh sure works they own, similar a paradigm yesteryear controversial Austrian creative someone Hermann Nitsch that was moved to storage later on Lewi was born. “When yous accept kids, yous don’t desire to seat upwardly evil paintings,” Kimmel explains. “But I’m truly happier living without that stuff.” This made room for family-friendly acquisitions, including a Pettibon surf watercolor, Dennis Hopper’s Double Standard photograph, the Seuss pencil sketch of a kooky goat, in addition to McCracken’s ocean-blue plank, which leans against the wall inward the living area. “I met him earlier he died; he was all nigh sci-fi,” Kimmel says. “I, too, accept a affair for sci-fi. I did my in conclusion collection on Area 51.” Not in conclusion every bit in final, but for now, leaving him fourth dimension to pass on creative projects such every bit edifice furniture. He made the wooden java tabular array close the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, in addition to recycled leftover velvet in addition to corduroy from his collection for sofas. The pair also chose what piffling other slice of furniture in that place is inward the bird amongst their increasingly mobile toddler inward mind. “You mightiness similar something amongst truly precipitous corners, but in addition to hence yous only intend nigh a face-plant,” Sobieski says. In improver to Kimmel’s pieces, in that place is a handful of mid-century chairs, including Ward Bennett’s Scissor models. “It’s constantly inward flux,” Sobieski admits. “We’re ever refiguring to arrive every bit cozy every bit possible.”
Comfort is paramount to the 29-year-old actress, from how she lives to what she wears. She swears yesteryear cashmere-cotton T-shirts, jumpsuits, in addition to sweaters from Kimmel’s business for everyday, in addition to for world appearances looks to designers similar Raf Simons, who in conclusion twelvemonth dressed her inward a navy collared shirt in addition to a brownish ball skirt every bit his engagement to an consequence where he was existence honored. Simons’s floor-length white shirtdress for Jil Sander, which she wore to a film-festival party, “was a dream dress,” Sobieski says. “It was only hence clean.” For someone who has been famous since earlier she could drive, Sobieski is uncomfortable inward the spotlight, happiest inward service to others. “I only dear helping my friends,” she says, peculiarly when she slips into the purpose of dating coach for Kimmel’s unmarried friends. “I’m truly proficient at getting the girl.” Playing matchmaker also allows Sobieski to reverberate on her ain marriage, 1 hence integral to her identity that she’s reevaluated her approach to her career. “Ninety per centum of acting roles take away hence much sexual stuff amongst other people, in addition to I don’t desire to practise that,” she says. “It’s such a foreign burn downwards to play with, in addition to our human relationship is sure rigid plenty to grip it, but if you’re going to walk through fire, in that place has to last something incredible on the other side.” And correct now, that something incredible is existent life.
