I love a woman who keeps a big, fat dictionary in the family room, in the book-stuffed shelves just to the side of the television. And don't get me started on the light up globe collection. I knew I liked this woman!
For all of us who have wondered exactly how the posh boho thespian couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick live in New York City, there is now a teeny tiny bit of eye candy circulating the web after Parker agreed to a "live" rapid-fire interview for Vogue.com While I have to point out there are moments that seem quite staged and anything but spontaneous, SJP carries it off like a pro.
She greets the quirky interviewer at the door with a smile and proceeds to tour us around the first floor rooms while answering his 73 questions. She floats through the house graciously asking the interviewer if she can get him something to drink, skipping around to answer the phone and being the general picture of effervescence that we have come to know her as.
Remember on Sex and the City when Carrie was preparing for her wedding to Mr. Big and she is reading the collection from the library of the love letters of great men, and she opens the pages to smell them? I always thought SJP was channelling a bit of herself in that scene and now I have proof: she adores books. There are books everywhere in her family room, stuffed into the shelves like multicolored confetti.
They brim off the shelves onto the floor of a space that may have been a dining room, save for the fact that there is a large, white ping pong table in the center of the room. Whimsical. The books abound. The huge dictionary sits above a collection of encased baseballs. The family room walls are an old world hue of grass green and there is an antique looking bar cart that's filled with spirits and glassware.
In the parlor which faces the street, there is a humble upright piano with an orchid, what seems like an eclectic and lovely collection of art and lots of natural light. Also the carpet runner on the stairs is an eye-catcher.
Favorite parts? The look she gives her interviewer as she answers the question, "Flats or Heels?" and when she says the weirdest word in the English language. If you want to know what it is, you'll have to click here for the full interview. "Best way to decompress?" he asks. She says, "With a book." Well said. Get off the internet!
*all photos from Vogue.com
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