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Step Inside Gwyneth Paltrow's Tranquil Montecito Home

A freestanding onyx bar by Roman and Williams holds one side of the living room while a Lindsey Adelman lighting installation activates the ceiling plane. Charles Zana sofa through The Invisible Collection, Jan Ekselius lounge chairs, A Space black marble side table, Julian Mayor cocktail table, Rick Owens chair, and carpet by Woven. Artworks include a painting by John Baldessari above the fireplace and a D'lisa Creager wire sculpture. Exterior doors by Riviera Bronze, mantel by Chesneys, paint by Farrow & Ball, and bar faucet by Waterworks.D'lisa Creager

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Working with AD100 talents Roman and Williams and Romanek Design Studio, Gwyneth Paltrow builds a serene family sanctuary

By Mayer Rus

Photography by Yoshihiro Makino

Styled by Colin King

February 2, 2022

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First, a caveat. Anyone hoping to find an array of caricatured, Goop-arific novelty features in the Montecito home that Gwyneth Paltrow shares with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk, is sure to be disappointed. There’s no plant-based, toxin-leaching, zero-gravity pod, no fermenting cabana, no crystal-powered sweat lodge. There are, to be sure, myriad elements specifically designed to nurture mind, body, and soul; they just happen to be far more discreet—things like Vitruvian proportions, sacred geometries, and a host of finely crafted architectural details that together represent a nuanced interpretation of wellness by design.

The entry has an 18th-century fireplace mantel and reclaimed-stone floors from Chateau `Domingue. The Akiko Hirai vessel on the center table is from RW Guild.

Gwyneth Paltrow, wearing a Khaite dress, Georges Chakra belt, Femme LA shoes, and Foundrae Jewelry, at home in Montecito, California. Fashion styling by Rob & Mariel.

“The strength of the house is in the subtleties of light and space,” Paltrow says. “We spent a lot of time assessing family patterns, how we really live, what makes us most comfortable. The focus was on the experience, the emotion.”

Paltrow first fell under the spell of Montecito during her two semesters at UC Santa Barbara, before she decamped to pursue a career in acting. “I’ve always gravitated toward Santa Barbara. Even when I was living in London, we’d take the kids there for holidays. It was our sweet gem of an escape in the U.S.,” she says. On one visit in 2015, Paltrow checked in on Redfin, her “favorite pornography app,” and discovered a generous lot for sale with a teardown but tons of potential. “It was like Grey Gardens,” she recalls. “There were wild animals living there and swarms of bugs, but I fell in love with the land and the views.”

And so Paltrow set out to fulfill the dream of building her first ground-up house. “That was chapter one of a long and arduous journey,” she notes wryly, citing the many technical complexities, unforeseen setbacks, and existential quandaries that inevitably arise in the process of home building. To tackle the assignment, Paltrow tapped her longtime collaborators Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams, the AD100 firm that had previously designed the actress’s Tribeca loft, the first Goop pop-up shop, and the company’s first permanent boutique, in the Brentwood Country Mart. “Robin and Stephen brought a real elegance to a very spec-y New York apartment, and I wanted to replicate the feeling of serenity they managed to conjure,” Paltrow says. “The kids were much younger when I embarked on this project, and I wasn’t married to Brad, so I was ideating for a future self that didn’t exist yet,” she adds.

Umbrellas from Niche Beverly and custom chaise longues are arrayed along the pool deck.

Paltrow describes the précis for the design of the house as “a Parisian apartment set within an old European barn, something with high ceilings, flooded with light, a place that feels generous yet manageable at the same time.” Drawing inspiration from the humble forms and rugged grace of Old World barns, the team from Roman and Williams responded with a scheme that deftly bridges the classical and the contemporary—a long, lean monolithic structure, laid out largely on one floor, with a shingled roof and stone walls that approximate the irregular rhythms and timeworn texture of dry-stack construction. The property is powered on solar energy, with a gray-water system, reflecting Paltrow's commitment to environmentalism as an essential consideration in any homebuilding project.

“A home should reflect the physicality and ethos of its owner, and this house takes its cues from Gwyneth’s height, beauty, and focus on distillation. You see it in the tall bones, the attenuated proportions, the radiused corners, and the slender molding profiles,” Standefer avers. “The house is built around extremely precise, thoughtful spaces that we refined again and again for years.”

A Jim Zivic hammock for Ralph Pucci and an Alexander Díaz Andersson lounge chair grace the living room.

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Standefer emphasizes the importance of craft and materiality in establishing the home’s soulful spirit and its particular sense of place, from the custom pewter-finished bronze doors to the antique fireplace mantels to the sculptural, freestanding onyx bar that anchors the capacious living room. The sybaritic home spa—think Baths of Caracalla meets Aman luxury—makes a particularly compelling case for Roman and Williams’s dexterous handling of form, flow, proportion, material, color, and texture. “It’s like an ancient bathhouse unexpectedly sheathed in these beautiful pale-green tiles with an Arts and Crafts vibe. We love investigating the tension and voltage between things you don’t normally see combined,” Standefer says.

Gwyneth Paltrow tackles bedroom taboos in Netflix series

By BROOKE LEFFERTSOctober 21, 2021 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow admits she has insecurities about her physical appearance in an episode of her new Netflix series “ Sex, Love & goop,” but she’s working on that. The Oscar-winner and entrepreneur behind the goop beauty and wellness brand opens up in the six-episode series, aimed at improving the relationships and sex lives of six courageous couples.

When some women on the show cited body image as an obstacle to sex, Paltrow shared her experience. She explained that after growing up in the public eye since she was 22, she was always trying to fit some ideal.

“I don’t think I’ve ever met a woman that feels completely great about her body, and that’s a real shame,“ Paltrow said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

“That means that we’re holding ourselves to some other standard that’s been prescribed to us and it’s very external as opposed to internal. At this point in my life, I’m definitely not a perfect person, but I’m always on a journey toward self-improvement. I really like myself. I know my faults. I don’t think I have blind spots anymore, and I’m trying to sort of cultivate that same feeling about my body.”

Paltrow, 49, also points out that she wanted to “show up for vulnerability” since she was asking the couples to do the same. The six pairs include people of varying ages, races, and sexual orientations working with experts to learn new ways to see each other and increase intimacy, while using methods and tools to enhance their relationships through more pleasurable sex.

One of goop’s missions is to encourage curiosity and “eliminate the shame around female sexuality” through its content and products. Paltrow says there’s no better way to achieve that than by talking about sex and giving people permission to ask for what they want in the bedroom.

“Female pleasure is still considered a taboo and I think that if you look back throughout history and you understand how controlling women’s pleasure or lack thereof or, you know... separating pleasure from morality, it’s a way to make women not feel fully themselves,” she said.

The show’s experts — a Sexological Bodyworker, a Tantra and Sacred Intimacy coach, and an Erotic Wellness coach -- help couples through deep discussions and physical exercises.

Many couples volunteered to be on the show in hopes of working through disagreements or attitudes toward sex, which ranged from differing levels of desire to complaints of losing the physical spark in a relationship.

Michaela Boehm, an intimacy expert on the series who has worked with Paltrow personally, says she is excited about “Sex, Love & goop” because it will make her advice more accessible to people who might otherwise be reluctant about sex therapy.

“You are doing it in the privacy of your bedroom or your living room, where you are watching. There’s no stigma attached, and you are not having to expose yourself. You get to inch into the water, so to speak, one little toe at a time,” Boehm said.

“People, because we don’t talk about these things, they think they are broken or the only one experiencing this,” Boehm said. “So seeing it and being presented with it as something that happens, that in itself takes so much pressure off and that opens a door and creates a belief that then can lead to a deeper relationship.”

Both Boehm and Paltrow said they were humbled by the courage the couples showed. “It requires a certain amount of bravery to submit yourself for something like that,” Paltrow said. “A lot of those couples really have almost that like, movie star thing that you just care and you want to watch them.”

The show — which starts streaming Thursday — has an onscreen note at the beginning saying it’s “designed to entertain and inform, not provide medical advice,” a disclaimer in anticipation of the criticism Paltrow and goop often receive. Some of the sessions showing couples experimenting with sex toys and accessories, including paddles, blindfolds and a metal “Wolverine claw,” are sure to get attention.

Goop has been scrutinized for promoting unconventional products and experiences in the effort to educate consumers, and Paltrow has been an easy target as the recognizable face leading the brand. “I have incredible admiration for her because she is willing to put herself in places that I personally, I don’t know if I had the fortitude to be criticized to that extent,” Boehm said.

“When she decided to really go into being very conscious about the uncoupling and all of those things, everybody was rolling their eyes, everybody was ridiculing her. But now you look and people are actually more willing to accept that they could have co-parenting situations and blended families that are a lot more functional, and that is to a large extent because she put herself out there.”

Yes, goop wants to educate and empower, but it’s also a business after all, so as the series launches, the website is also highlighting two new tie-in products: a vibrator and a female libido supplement.

“I think largely women have been inculcated with this idea that we don’t deserve to ask for those things, and I think it really hinders us.” Paltrow said. The topic of sex is such a great way to kind of really take a bulldozer to try and bust through all of this because it’s something that we all do, and it’s something that really connects us to ourselves.”

Visiting Gwyneth Paltrow: actress' house in Montecito

Living room. Onyx bar according to designers' sketches; lamps designed by Lindsey Adelman; sofa designed by Charles Zahn, The Invisible Collection; armchairs designed by Jan Excelsius; coffee table designed by Julian Mayor; in the background is an armchair, Rick Owens; carpet, Woven; above the fireplace by John Baldessari.

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Roman and Williams architects and Romanek design studio made Gwyneth Paltrow's dream of a quiet family home away from the hustle and bustle come true.

Mayer Rus

Photo by Yoshihiro Makino

Stylist Colin King

February 4, 2022

Gwyneth Paltrow's intimate scented candle made a lot of noise and looks like Goop a little cartoonish. What can not be said about the new house, where the actress settled with her husband, producer Brad Falchuk, and children. There is nothing "organic herbal" and "toxin free", no charged crystals and anti-vampire sprays, but there is a place for the whole family where you can relax body and soul. Every centimeter of this house is verified, as if the proportions of the “Vitruvian Man”, and the details of architecture and interior can become the personification of the word “harmony”.

Gwyneth Paltrow in a dress, Chanel, and jewelry, Foundrae. Sofa by Charles Zahn, The Invisible Collection; painting by Ed Ruscha.

“The strength of this home is how subtle the light works in space,” says Paltrow. “While working on the project, we thought a lot about how we live, what each family member likes and how comfortable we all spend time together, so we decided to focus on communication and emotions that everyone experiences.”

Living room. Hammock designed by Jim Civic, Ralph Pucci; armchair designed by Alexander Diaz Andersson.

Gwyneth Paltrow fell in love with Montecito a long time ago, even before her acting career, while studying at the University of California at Santa Barbara. “I have always gravitated towards this place, and even when I lived in London, my children and I always went here on vacation,” recalls Gwyneth. “This is a real treasure among all American vacation spots.” She came here again in 2015, and her hands went to the iPhone to check Redfin, her “favorite porn app” (analogous to our “Cyan”), and found a house there to be demolished in a very picturesque place. “It reminded me of the movie Gray Gardens, where a lot of small animals lived on the territory, hordes of bugs,” says Paltrow. “I fell in love with this place and bought the plot.” From that moment on, a new chapter began in the life of the actress called “Building your own house from scratch”. This chapter was not easy: during any construction there are a million technical moments, things that were forgotten to be foreseen, and morally this is a difficult process.

Gwyneth asked longtime friends Robin Standefer and Steven Alyosha from Roman and Williams, who have already designed a loft in New York, a pop-up boutique for her brand Goop, and her first boutique in Los Angeles, to take care of the house. “Robin and Steven were able to transform a very specific space in my Tribeca loft into an elegant apartment, and I came to them again for their ability to create magic,” says Gwyneth. “When we started the project in Montecito, the kids were small, I wasn’t married to Brad yet, so I had to create space for a future that wasn’t there yet.”

Canteen. Table designed by Martin Masse, Kolkhoze; chairs designed by GamFratesi, Porro; lamp, Thomas Newman Studio; consoles designed by Robert Kuo; fireplace portal of the 18th century, Chateau Domingue; accessories, RW Guild.

Paltrow describes his vision of the house as “the interior of a typical Parisian apartment within the walls of an old barn, always with high ceilings, where there is a lot of natural light and space and you can later change the space a little.” The architects deftly combined the lightness and airiness of Parisian interiors and the power of traditional rural buildings, presenting their famous client a project of an elongated one-story building with a roof of flexible tiles and walls of stone of various sizes to create the effect of antiquity. Electricity here is generated using solar panels, and all waste water is used to irrigate the garden.

Gwyneth Paltrow in dress and skirt, A.W.A.K.E., and shoes, Jessica Rich, and her husband Brad Falchuk in boots, Koio. Cabinets and built-in furniture are made according to the designers' sketches; sconce, Allied Maker; plate, Monogram; crockery, Hermès.

“A home should reflect its owner, both physically and mentally,” says Robin Standefer. — We took as a basis the anthropological data of Gwyneth, her height, subtlety, beauty and her desire for truth and purity. This house is sophisticated, like its owner, tall, but with rounded corners.” The architects are convinced that in this place it was possible to build a house exclusively from natural materials that would emphasize the beauty of nature around. They used natural stone, not only in construction, but also in decoration: for example, the bar in the living room is made of onyx, and there is also a marble fireplace portal from the 18th century.

Hall. Fireplace portal and 18th century marble floors, Chateau Domingue; on the table is a vase Akiko Hirai, RW Guild.

The home spa, a cross between the Baths of Caracalla and the resorts of the Aman chain, deserves special attention: here you can clearly see how subtly the architects are able to work with form, proportions, materials, color and textures. “This spa really does look like old bathhouses, only they are not antique marble, but light green tiles,” says Standefer.

Spa area. Tile, Bantam Tileworks; souls, R. W. Atlas; lamps, Shiplights; plants, Willy Guhl.

Gwyneth Paltrow, obsessed with furniture and interior design, initially thought she would furnish her new home by herself. “I thought that I would just buy different cool furniture and everything would be great, but while the construction was going on, I realized that there were too many nuances in the house, there were so many things to pay attention to, so I turned to professional designer Brigitte Romanek, with whom we have been friends for more than twenty years,” recalls Paltrow. — I suggested that she take on this project together to improve my design skills a bit. Plus, I was sure it would be a lot of fun.” Romanek decided to act on opposites: hard and soft, streamlined and rough, old and new — and thanks to this approach, she managed to assemble the very set of objects that fit perfectly into the new home.

One of the bathrooms. Hand-painted wallpaper and mirror, MJ Atelier; sconce by Giopato & Coombes, StudioTwentySeven; antique marble sink, Stone Objects; mixer, THG.

Paltrow chose many things herself: for example, she really liked Lindsey Adelman's lamps, and she asked her to create a light installation especially for her living room. “Such intricate things in this peaceful space remind me of punk rock jewelry in a calm way,” Gwyneth explains. But the hammock designed by Jim Civic moved with the owner from her previous home in Los Angeles, and it looks very organic, as if it has always hung here.
“In any big business there will always be unpleasant moments, but you need to keep the big picture in your head, and then everything will work out,” says Gwyneth Paltrow. “This house taught me peace and gratitude, it fully reflects me, and this is the most important thing.”

Pool area. Chaise lounges are made to order; umbrellas, Niche Beverly.

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How to decorate an interior like Gwyneth Paltrow: 3 simple steps

American actress York with her husband Chris Martin. The purchase cost the couple $10.45 million. This house is both one of the most luxurious mansions in Los Angeles and combines the simplicity of a “farm house”. The house has a huge dining room and kitchen, a spacious living room,
barbecue areas, volleyball court and even stables. Near the main house there is a small outbuilding for guests, and the whole territory is planted with plane trees.

The 8,000 square foot house was built by a design team led by Windsor Smith. The rooms were decorated by various famous decorators such as Catherine Ireland and Martin Lawrence Ballard.
The walls in the house are painted in milky white, while the design of each individual room was developed by different designers. Windsor Smith himself worked on the appearance of the foyer. Gwyneth Paltrow also took an active part in the development of the design, guided by her personal preferences, she helped come up with an elegant, touching and very feminine interior design for her "residence".

The floors throughout the house are parquet, and only in the huge vestibule is the flooring made of Peruvian stone. A special place in the living room is occupied by paintings, they add completeness to the entire design of the room. Gwyneth also allocated a large area for shelves for books and magazines. Floor-to-ceiling windows and light-colored walls add a feeling of spaciousness and airiness, while multi-colored pillows on chocolate-brown sofas become a contrasting highlight in the living room.

Designing the décor, Gwyneth Paltrow opted for a cool pastel palette and clean, crisp lines. The interior design of the bedroom gives the impression of a very gentle, functional and cozy room. The bedroom can be safely called minimalistic and very feminine.

In addition to the large master bedroom, the house has several guest rooms, among which the bedroom with emerald color accents deserves special attention.

The white and gray kitchen with a huge marble countertop is especially nice. Such a kitchen can be safely called the dream of any housewife: a huge work surface area, countless cabinets and all kinds of kitchen utensils will surely delight those for whom the kitchen is not only a place for receiving guests or joint lunches or dinners, but also a platform for daily cooking . Gwyneth Paltrow hosts her own cooking show, so the kitchen has a special place in her life.

In interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow, she often admits that her home is the only place where she can truly relax, in particular, one of the star's favorite places to relax is the bathroom. The gentle and romantic atmosphere of the bathrooms (and there are 8 of them in the house) is ideal for a good rest and promotes maximum relaxation.

Children of Gwyneth and Chris, 8-year-old Apple and 6-year-old Moses, have their own rooms. In the photo below you can see baby Apple's nursery, the airy white and pink room of the room is the perfect space for a little princess. Little daughter Gwyneth took part in the decoration of the house. She chose the decor for her bed herself.

How to create an interior in the style of Gwyneth Paltrow's house:

3 easy steps

More light colors. Subdued colors, a cool pastel palette, clean, crisp lines and a general retro motif help to give your home a cozy feel and feel like a very functional space. Light shades are logical to use in both large and small interiors. In rooms that are modest in size, light shades visually “push apart” the walls, making it visually more spacious. And in large houses, light shades on the walls act as an excellent backdrop for more interesting bright and rich accents - large paintings and panels.
We pay special attention to objects of art. So, for example, landscapes and bright paintings in the style of impressionism are suitable for the living room. For the bedroom, choose soothing, discreet colors. It is the paintings that are the most refined and beautiful way of wall decor.
We use velvet. If you look closely, velvet is used throughout the house in textile trim - these are sofa cushions, banquettes near the bed, and upholstery of armchairs. Velvet will fit perfectly into any classic interior, but it will also look very harmonious and modern due to its unusual texture and wide palette of shades.
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