Pair modern design’s top talents and television’s most provocative shows and you get none other than Metropolitan Home’s Showtime House. Set in a pair of $25.5 million penthouses within Manhattan’s Tribeca Summit, this 14,000-square-foot dream space has become the creative playground for 14 of the world’s top architects and designers. Their diverse skills and backgrounds bring dynamic layers to the house while the off-beat characters but the plotlines from six of the hottest original series give their work must-see style.
Nurse Jackie Master Bedroom (Above)
In Nurse Jackie’s bedroom, details make the difference. Christopher Coleman and Angel Sanchez’s choice of accessories are well thought-out and spot-on. Clues to Jackie's line of work range from the colorful pill wallpaper to X-ray vanity to the hospital booties that double as slippers. The platform bed-frame is wrapped to resemble bandages and the wheeled bedside tables look like they’re borrowed from the ER.
Photographer: Antoine Bootz
Dexter Dining room
In Dexter’s dining room, the interplay of light and shape is served up as the main course. Windows are covered in a million-dollar LED panel installation that act as curtains. Its groundbreaking technology projects Dexter imagery through the light discs to form an artful, pixilated image. The table’s flat surface is intentionally marred by a gash that mimics the cut across his victims’ faces. Chairs bear a somewhat creepy resemblance to a human skeleton. Wrapped in fabric that flexes, these seats are resilient to the touch and appear to defy gravity with their freeform shape.
Photographer: Antoine Bootz
Weeds Dining room
Like Weeds, James Biber’s dining room is both iconic and iconoclastic. The inspiration for this space was taken from an episode in which Nancy’s partners-in-crime swipe a church cross and repurpose it as a grow-house light. Biber honed in on this moment and amplified it with glitz, luxury, and a bit more blasphemy. The green and orange walls bend around the cross in its multiple forms—mod picnic table and intersecting Swarovski chandeliers. Natural bark wallpaper, a moss table runner and earthly hues balance over-the-top furnishings like a crystal-filled fireplace and drapes adorned with Nancy’s staring eyes.
Photographer: Antoine Bootz
Tudors Dining Room
Personal touches turn a house into a home, which is why Piero Lissoni and Nicoletta Canesi picked furnishings for Henry VIII’s dining room that are all about him. Henry looks down from this abstract wall portrait at his collection of ex-wives seated at the table. History’s most dysfunctional royal family members intermingle on the carpet design below. This decorative ode to the king is bound to leave Henry and his ego well satisfied
Photographer: Antoine Bootz
