Inside NBA Star Kevin Love's Modern TriBeCa Home
Today NBA All Star Kevin Love welcomes Architectural Digest to the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan for a look at life inside his stylish and modern home. Buying a place in New York City was the culmination of of a lifelong ambition for Kevin and the final product is a home that evokes his personal style at every turn. From the strikingly curated artwork to the sunlit spaces for reflection and recharging ahead of another run at an NBA Championship, Kevin Love has made his ideal city sanctuary. -- Select Artwork: Antony Gormley SMALL LOOK V 2015 Cast iron 102.4 x 21.7 x 16.4 cm © Antony Gormley
What's up AD, it's Kevin Love.
Happy to have you guys here, let's go check out my place.
[upbeat music]
So initially I chose New York city because when I was 17,
18 years old, I actually wrote in a journal
that I would have a New York apartment
by the time I turned 30 years old.
So when I was 29, actually only a few months
before I turned 30, is June 13th of that year.
My birthday, September 7th, I had signed taken the keys
and kind of the rest is history.
So that was a dream come true for me.
All right, so this is something that kind of,
I guess not my life, but when people come in here,
kind of gets overlooked.
And that is, the Mackintosh record player here.
This is one of the, actually a 30th birthday present,
but something that I had to have.
Music is such a huge part of my life.
I feel like a lot of people know that my uncle
is Mike Love and the beach boys, my cousins are the Wilsons.
So I think that kind of leveraged me and put me into a space
where music always had to be a part of my life and kind
of helps tell that personal narrative in a big way.
[soft music playing]
I'm sorry, can't play that.
And then in this space here,
we wanted to be able to separate not only the living space,
but also make it some sort of like a screening or TV room
where we can watch our shows, we can watch our movies
and I'll jump over here, and from 2016.
Now, so this moment was when
the game clock finally went off, everything struck zero,
we had won the game and I think a number of us embraced
And this is one of my favorite photos from that time,
because you just see complete elation from,
coming back from three, one, Cleveland having
a 52 year drought of a major sports championship.
Everything that went into that, it was just,
a really special time and something that I'll stick out
for the rest of my life as the year that we won
the championship, you can never take that away from us.
As I said, really cool way to separate the space.
Whereas it turns into kind of like a little screening area.
So we thought this was a really great use of the space
and something that could kind of change
at the drop of a hat.
And then I gotta mention these, these amazing Navajo print,
carbon fiber Ralph chairs.
And it's funny because we were trying to expedite
the process and finish this room and say,
Hey, listen, Ralph, we need the chairs ASAP.
And they kind of came back at us and said,
Hey, listen, you're not the only ones waiting for them.
Ralph was actually waiting for him as well,
so you'll get them after him.
So this table is actually really special.
If you look at some of the details,
it's actually hand-stitched and you can see
it running linear all the way across and underneath.
So they took these two pieces of wood and just made
it a really beautiful centerpiece and table.
So I loved the idea of having a sculpture in this space,
especially in taking advantage of some of the square footage
and having a Antony Gormley sculpture was something
that I had always wanted, and making us kind
of conceptualize our space and look inward beneath the skin.
And that's kind of work that I've been doing over
the past several years.
I kind of bought it, not even considering that at the time,
and I love how the light hits it.
So now we'll go into my favorite room,
which was the second bedroom, but I wanted to make a space
for me where it could be like a safe haven.
I decided to make it an office for myself.
A place where I could work outside of the lines and outside
of the realm in the world of basketball.
So I could come here and work on,
many other different mediums and things that I love.
But a lot of journaling, a lot of reading, a lot of working,
on my fund in the morning, anything.
Just a creative and safe space where I can come
and really just be myself.
So this is probably my favorite piece.
Why I chose to put it here is because it's so powerful,
especially in the context of the world
that we're living today, whether it be COVID,
whether it be social injustice, even the wildfires out West,
all the way through the election.
It just shows you that this time that we're navigating
becomes more and more complex.
And I think that's a really what Rashid Johnson wanted
to show here.
I mean, it's very unique and he's very unique
in his own struggle, but also understanding
that we all share this anxious audience.
We all share these anxieties.
And while that is, that does hold true
that each person individually is suffering
in their own right, as well.
So I want to mirror Rashid's piece with a Gordon parks work
from the 1950s.
And he did a series of a number of these photos
of segregation of the South.
And having people be aware of the struggle in this country,
especially when it comes to African-Americans
and black Americans.
So I felt it was really important to have this in the space
and understanding, this is almost kind of mirroring
it with today, and today's anxieties with,
I guess this is 1956, Mississippi at a drinking fountain.
You can see colored only, white only,
and this is so complex in itself.
I could sit here and talk about this forever.
But this room is just a constant reminder of how much,
I guess, as a collective we, how much we still have
to get ahead of, and still so much we have
to overcome, just as humans, it's black, white or other.
It's just really powerful to be in this room and,
find inspiration and know that our job is not done,
it's not finished.
But just put a lot of friends, maybe family here,
as well as my late grandmother who passed,
a big part of my story.
While that seems to be a little bit of heaviness
in this room, it also is a very inspiring place
where I come to get to work.
I don't really get to rest in here.
I like to get to work and start to build things.
And I know that these people are a part of my story,
and they'll be with me to the end, so that makes it fun.
Now we're taking you from the living room
and the dining room into the kitchen.
The beauty of this space is, and one of the main reasons
that I picked this particular floor and unit,
was because of the sight line.
I really loved the idea of looking at the trees, the water,
the cityscape and the sky.
Still feeling like we were super grounded in New York city
in a major way.
And the beauty of buying this place prebuilt,
was that we had got to have some sort of saying
in the construction.
The biggest undertaking that we did,
and we were able to actually get done,
was opening up this sight line in the kitchen.
Originally, there was supposed to be a wall here all
the way across.
We rewrapped the hood, and then if you come over here,
a little baby girl Vestry comes in,
eats her food in the morning.
We might come down, take a little seat, read, finish texts,
finish emails, and just take advantage of the space.
So this bench was a very, very big deal for us.
And then of course in any kitchen,
if you spend any time around me, you gotta have wine.
This is one of my, favorite bottles.
It's a good year, 2010, Chateau Mattoon, raw Salt.
I hate trying to say the names.
I think JJ Redick and I had talked about that at length,
but also in AD alone, we've shared a lot of wine together,
shared a lot of wine with my friends.
And one thing I always say, if you're with me,
you're gonna eat well and you're gonna drink well.
So a lot of great bottles here, as you can see,
some of the inventory is out because COVID has been a time
where we've shared a lot of bottles.
So next, we just have a very cozy guest bedroom.
This is actually the third bedroom in the place.
Really loved the reclaimed oak here.
It's actually out of Oregon.
Just amazing to always have a feeling
of the elements around.
I mean, I come from a place where, Pacific Northwest,
there's just pine trees, Douglas firs,
all sorts of wood everywhere.
So to have that component,
I just always love having it around.
It feels like a breath of fresh air.
It gets pretty dark in here as well,
'cause it faces the courtyard.
Sometimes I come in here and just shut off,
take a little nap, but you know, we need people to rest
if they're coming to visit here because,
New York can be fun.
All right, so now we're gonna head into the bedroom,
kind of his and hers across the way,
opened this up a little bit.
Custom Ralph, pinstripe suit, double breasted.
Can't go wrong, listen, it's not that I'm a Yankees fan.
I just, I love New York.
I think the luxury and the best thing
that New York has going for them, is they're New Yorkers.
So I love that.
And then just a number of pieces across the board.
Army fatigue, love my denims, but I'm a hoodie flannel guys.
You can see the trees here as well.
There's just a lot to this space that I really love.
And the idea of taking advantage of this closet
because it's few and far between when it comes
to New York city.
So I mentioned briefly a few times just bring in a number
of places in my life, to the fold here in the apartment.
So this is done by people in Cleveland.
So we had to bring them into the fold and just add
to that rugged and rustic feel to the apart.
All right, so now the actual bedroom.
What I love here is the Pendleton Prince,
just reupholstering this bench in a way
that it was still very functional,
but the aesthetic here is crazy.
We love this.
And then matching it in a lot of ways
with Vestry's bed.
So this was made particularly for her, she loves it.
We can put this anywhere in the apartment,
she's gonna go sit on that.
Another beautiful thing that we wanted was, exposed brick.
Just adds a certain element and a certain feel that makes
you feel like you're in the grittiness of New York city.
Whereas the office space is a place where I really get
to work, it's kind of like a sanctuary for me.
This is where I can really, whoosah, take a deep breath
and just relax.
All right, so you guys have seen most of the place,
but I couldn't have you leave without meeting
the other two stars of the show in Kate.
And Vestry, come on girl, don't be shy.
Good girl, good girl, she wants some wine.
You want some wine?
All right AD, thank you so much
for letting us show you our space.
We've got to take Vestry on a walk.
We gotta enjoy this wine.
We're gonna get back to the rest of our day, thank you.
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