“Everyone always says I’m the high maintenance one,” Jonathan says. “Have you seen his wardrobe? Have you seen those nails!” “Have you seen that hair?” Drew fires back, pointing to his brother’s coiffe. I’m on a virtual call with the pair who are, all kidding aside, launching a furniture collection exclusive to Living Spaces, a furniture retailer.
Now, in the interest of full transparency, I signed up to attend the first look for media event not so much because I was interested in the new line, but because I thought it would be cool to virtually meet Drew and Jonathan. I’m shallow that way. True to form, the TV twins managed to distinguish themselves in their new furniture line as well.
The California-inspired furniture features two sides of Los Angeles, the city the twins, who hail from Canada, now call home. “You’re really seeing two sides of our L.A.
story,” Jonathan said. “You’ve got Drew’s old Hollywood style, and you’ve also got my laid-back California.” One is more luxe and glamorous, while the other has a casual, sink-into-a-space-and-never-get-up-sort-of vibe.
Drew and his wife, Linda Phan, have a home in Hancock Park, a venerable, mansion-filled neighborhood near downtown. Jonathan and his partner, actor Zooey Deschanel, have recently bought a home they’re renovating in Brentwood, on the city’s westside, nearer the coast. Like the twins, the City of Angels is a study in contrasts.
“When you think about where we are here in L.
