When Jason Schwartzman visited his Los Angeles home for the first time, he knew he wanted to buy it after thinking: “My way of articulating is odd,” he says, laughing, while sitting on the couch with his wife Brady Cunningham. “But there wasn’t a place in the house where I felt, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be in this weird corner.’ To me, that was the one thing that stood out: there wasn’t place where I felt afraid.
” The mid-century modern property, originally built in 1964, is perched high on a hill in Studio City. From the outside, on a clear day, you can see all the way across the San Fernando Valley. Inside, however, you’ll find a variety of more unexpected oddities: a sitar lays across an entryway bench, while a credenza is lined with figurines gifted to the couple by Wes Anderson.
(One of them is the Fantastic Mr. Fox, the titular character of Anderson’s stop-motion film voiced by Schwartzman.) There are very few walls and doors—an open floorplan is a characteristic of the mid-century architectural style, after all—and those that exist are far from traditional.
The bedrooms, for example, feature saloon doors that you can swing open at will. “I feel like my kids can hear me if I have a question,” Schwartzman says. Yet, “it has its nooks,” he adds.
One of them? A den that’s almost entirely filled with a giant checkered sofa. Cunningham, an interior designer and founder of creative consulting firm Wall for Apricots, designed the nine-foot-deep .