Sofa Coppola's Apartment
[ 21 February 2007 ]
Sofia Coppola’s apartment in Soho, New York City.
Regrettably, I have no idea where these photographs came from. All I have to go on is this small quote:
“Instead of doing the loft thing,” says Coppola, “and just sprinkling around a bunch of modern furniture, I wanted to decorate my place with pieces that looked grown up like what our parents might have owned.”
What do you think of the style? I think it’s lovely but a little bit too pared down. I like the casual air of having framed pictures along a shelf, I love the low couch & the soft colours.
The second picture is interesting. I ADORE the table — the shape, the wood, everything. The zebra-skin rug makes me wrinkle my nose, though, & the painting looks juvenile at best. It really looks like the whole place has been “cleaned up” for the cameras, which I guess they always do, but I like to see REAL living spaces — with an old newspaper & a laptop & a big stack of reading on the couch.
I guess expected something a little more ethereal from the director of movies such as The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette & Lost In Translation, but maybe she prefers a more earthy existence the rest of the time.
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala 
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i too love the table! i also love sofia’s work but i think sofia and her films are so so different but connected by ethereality. i decided this when i saw sofia in the ‘behind the scenes’ bit of the lost in translation dvd. she appears quite um… pared back, so am not surpised that her flat appears as it does.
i think its boring. late 90’s shabby chic. zzz
I love it. I think it most certainly has been overly cleaned up for the cameras – but with the windows open and the Sunday paper on the floor, it would be magnifique!
I think its nice, but it looks like a page from the latest Freedom Furniture catalogue… perhaps that is the cleaned up for the cameras thing you mention. I also agree with immie it is slightly boring…
haha, i hate the painting. it’ by elizabeth peyton. she’s hot stuff right now, all the celebs like her, as do my art teachers, but her style’s so..stupid. Like in the sense that some 7th grader really could do it better. i like the apartmentitself, lots of light, but i would have gone a bit more ethereal with it.
Ag — Yeah, I’m with you. It really does nothing for me. It’s so interesting the way different people perceive art. I can’t even BEGIN to understand how someone could see that, decide they love it, buy it & hang it!
How much more blah could these rooms get? Even that painting is unworthy of a second glance.