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"Martin Scorsese\nAn 1860s Town House for the Age of Innocence Director\nThe living room.\n\nOriginal move posters adorn nearly every wall of the four-story residence of Martin Scorsese, the director of such films as Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and The Aviator (2004). N. Brodsky's 1937 graphic image for La Grande Illusion hangs in the living room.\nThe living room.\n\nScorsese views his collection of 16-mm film on the projector in the living room. The poster for Renoir's Le Carrosse d'Or is from 1953. On the mantel are 19th-century Japanese stirrups from actor Ken Takakura.\nThe desk in the living room.\n\nThe research done by Scorsese's staff for The Age of Innocence (1993) gave the director \"a greater feeling for Victorian pieces and antiques,\" notes interior designer Karen Houghton. She divided the second-floor living room into two spaces. Above the circa 1850 English desk are 19th-century Japanese wood-block prints from Akira Kurosawa.\nOne of the director's vintage movie posters.\n\nThe fantasy of Cocteau's La Belle et la B\u00EAte is portrayed in Jean-Denis Malcl\u00E9's 1946 poster. Scorsese has been buying vintage movie posters since 1968.\nThe dining room.\n\nIn the dining room is Bernard Lancy's poster for Les Enfants du Paradis. \"I would never just buy a beautiful poster if I didn't know the film,\" Scorsese says. \"It has to be an extraordinary film, with a special meaning for me.\" The 1870 dining table is French.\nThe rear garden of the townhouse.\n\nThe garden is off the dining room. \"I'm not much of a gardener,\" says Scorsese. \"In the tenements I came from we didn't have much room, although those big basil plants did pretty well on the fire escapes.\"\nSubscribe to Architectural Digest"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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