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Inside Isaac Mizrahi’s Art-Filled Greenwich Village Apartment Inside Isaac Mizrahi’s Art-Filled Greenwich Village Apartment
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The designer Isaac Mizrahi is a Libra with a Virgo ascendant, which makes him “obsessive about creature comforts,” he writes in the preface to his new memoir, “I.M.” Chief among those comforts is watching “Jeopardy!,” which he likes to record and replay when he can’t sleep (which is often, he says). Accordingly, he has seven televisions in his apartment, including one in each of the three bedrooms and one in the bathroom, facing his monolithic white marble soaking tub.The designer Isaac Mizrahi is a Libra with a Virgo ascendant, which makes him “obsessive about creature comforts,” he writes in the preface to his new memoir, “I.M.” Chief among those comforts is watching “Jeopardy!,” which he likes to record and replay when he can’t sleep (which is often, he says). Accordingly, he has seven televisions in his apartment, including one in each of the three bedrooms and one in the bathroom, facing his monolithic white marble soaking tub.
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Mizrahi moved into this building — a prewar condominium on a tree-lined Greenwich Village block — in 1991. (It was a short walk, through Washington Square Park, to his studio at the time, a SoHo loft where he fitted models including Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista in his vibrant avant-garde designs, as captured in the 1995 fashion documentary “Unzipped.”) He bought a light-flooded one-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor first, and then, six years later, acquired a small studio down the hall. During insomniac spells in the following years, he recalls, instead of counting sheep, he would fantasize about buying the intervening unit and connecting the three spaces. “Then, in this weird psychic way,” he says, “it happened.” In 2010, the third apartment came on the market; Mizrahi bought it and created his current space: a sprawling 4,000-square-foot sequence of rooms animated by colorful assemblages of knickknacks, Louis XVI-style furniture and sweeping views over some of Manhattan’s most beautiful landmarked blocks. In a corner of his bedroom is the small 18th-century fold-down table, where, looking out over his terrace and across the Village, he wrote “I.M.,” a witty account of his life so far. Watch the video to see Mizrahi give a tour of his home — and play “Jeopardy!”Mizrahi moved into this building — a prewar condominium on a tree-lined Greenwich Village block — in 1991. (It was a short walk, through Washington Square Park, to his studio at the time, a SoHo loft where he fitted models including Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista in his vibrant avant-garde designs, as captured in the 1995 fashion documentary “Unzipped.”) He bought a light-flooded one-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor first, and then, six years later, acquired a small studio down the hall. During insomniac spells in the following years, he recalls, instead of counting sheep, he would fantasize about buying the intervening unit and connecting the three spaces. “Then, in this weird psychic way,” he says, “it happened.” In 2010, the third apartment came on the market; Mizrahi bought it and created his current space: a sprawling 4,000-square-foot sequence of rooms animated by colorful assemblages of knickknacks, Louis XVI-style furniture and sweeping views over some of Manhattan’s most beautiful landmarked blocks. In a corner of his bedroom is the small 18th-century fold-down table, where, looking out over his terrace and across the Village, he wrote “I.M.,” a witty account of his life so far. Watch the video to see Mizrahi give a tour of his home — and play “Jeopardy!”