Inside Dakota Johnson's Serene Hollywood Home

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Published on March 11, 2020 - Duration: 10:01s

Inside Dakota Johnson's Serene Hollywood Home

Today Architectural Digest brings you inside the lush home of Hollywood star Dakota Johnson.

The wood-framed house features wall-sized windows in the living room, perfect for highlighting the decorative crystals that pepper the space.

From the books that line the walls of her home office to the fruit-bearing citrus trees in the backyard, Dakota’s home is a reflection of the things that bring her joy.


Inside Dakota Johnson's Serene Hollywood Home

[door opening]- Hi, A.D, I'm Dakota,welcome to my house.[upbeat music]I moved here about five years ago,and it was the second house I looked at,and the first house I ever bought.I love wood, and I lovelight and windows and green,so I just fell in love.Ryan Murphy lived in this house first.And he loved it so much too,but his family gotbigger, so he moved out.[laughing] Lucky.And this is the living room.I hang out in here, I read,people, kind of, are alwayscoming in and out of my houseand everyone hangs out in this room,obviously, not onlybecause it's a living room,but because it's one ofthe only places to sit.The furniture is vintage andthe couches were originaland we recovered them inthis amazing crushed mohair.And this table came with the house,I bought it with thehouse, which was lucky.It's pretty cool, onthe bottom it's bamboo.The piano is vintage,it's an antique Wurlitzer.I play, like badly.Hi!That's Zeppelin, he wantsto show you his dinosaur.This is not an antique, this thing,but I have a record collectionthat goes all the wayand I just alphabetized them.And that's really exciting.Right now, is "Ram", Paul McCartney.It's a really great albumand a really great albumto listen to on vinyl.And this amazing thing happensat certain times of day,like really early inthe morning, 7:00 a.m.Light from the sun on thepool does this on the ceiling,and I think it's the coolest.This is my office.I read scripts in here.I have meetings in here sometimes.I actually don't really get any work done,'cause I get distracted byeverything that's in here.My favorite thing about it, I guess,is these bookshelves thatI built into the walls.Originally, they were justthese really beautiful,like clean wood slabs, andthen they started to fallbecause I have a lot of books.These ones were sent to me by Patti Smith.I said, "I love your poetryso much, I love your work."And so she wrote me little notesin all of these books that she sent me.This is a weird pile, don'tfocus on this pile of books.[laughing] Let's just putthese ones in a different,we'll just put them down here.Go to a cooler pile.This is cool, it's a wax mushroom.This, I was working withChanel a long time ago,and my alias was Punk Rock,and I thought that was funny.They're silly awards, I don't even know,I'm not an awards person.Barb is such a great character.Barb didn't come backin season two, did she?They totally forgot aboutBarb in the Upside Down.That sucks, she's still there.Oh, "Sex and the Constitution,"that's a really interesting one."Sex, Religion, and Lawfrom America's Origins,"[laughing] oh, Jesus!What a weird girl.This was a Polaroid of Hunter Thompson,who was my dad's best friend,and a very dear godfather figure to me.And I love it so much.Even with his boobies.This is an amazingphotographer, named Alice Mann,and she photographsthese marching band girlsin South Africa.And the energy is amazingand it makes me feel hopeful.That is a photograph ofmy grandma at her house,at Shambala with one of her tigers.Let's go in the dining room.This table actually, wedesigned it and had it made.I mean, it's a smaller room andwe didn't wanna lose the rugand the light and we kindawanted to table to disappear.And these chairs look like little humans;they're so gorgeous.This, I found on 1stdibs, maybe?I [beep] love 1stdibs so much.I have some crystals, yeah.This one is cool becauseit has a dandelion inside.Isn't that so cool?People tend to givecrystals as gifts in L.A.and that's great, I love them.There's a really big oneover there in the corner.That guy, that crystal is crazy.And it projects good vibes into,you know, the house, and at people.This is my little kitchen, we painted it.We painted it this greencolor, I love green.I lived in New York beforeI moved into this house,and then before I moved to New York,I lived in a house and Ipainted the kitchen green,but I totally [beep] up the color,and it was like the mostatrocious color green.It was so hardcore, itlooked insane, like terrible,but then I got it righton this one, I think.[Dakota laughing]I love cooking, I cooka lot, and I bake a lot.I love limes, [laughs] I love them.They're great and I love them so much,and I like to present themlike this in my house.And how cool is this?It's dying, that plant,now that I'm looking at it.That's so sad.There we go.I never, ever thought thatI'd be like, a dish person,because I don't get it at all,like the psychology of it,I don't understand why anyonewould collect loads of dishes.Or, people who havechina and china cabinets,I was always like, "What,why, I don't get it."But this, is so cool!Here I am with loads of dishes.Look at these!Never have I used this.What is that for?Oh, it's for teacups, got it.I mean, can you stand it?They're the coolest, wouldn'tyou wanna drink outta that?I never do, 'cause they're too cool.They're just for sitting in this cabinet.My company is called TeaTime Pictures,so tea is a big deal for me.But also, caffeine is a big deal for me,which I need some of it now.That's upstairs where my bedroom is,but we're not going up there.This is outside.I wanted you to see thistable and chairs over here,because this was made out of the woodfrom Winston Churchill's yacht.I'm not lying, and I thinkthat's the coolest thing ever.And look at how these chairs fit.Nobody can really sit in this tablebecause the chairs wobbleand these cracks in the slabs of pavement,and people fall out of them, and it sucks.But, isn't that so satisfying and amazing?I planted this tree when I movedin and it was a little babyand I got some whoppersof lemons on that one.But this one, look,they're like perfectlyplaced oranges on this tree.Can you believe that?How beautifully they're placed,it's like I did it for this very reason.This was meant to be an herb gardenand I never planted any herbs in itand I'm just looking at it nowand it looks so crazy in here [laughing].I didn't ever do anythingand all this wild [beep]started growing in it.Like this guy, what are you even, weeds.You know that on a lot of tea bags,they have little fortunes?On the back of the tea tab?And I really take them very seriously.And one that I get all the time is,"The difference between aflower and a weed is judgment."So, think about that.I finally, recently got outdoor furniture.For awhile, it was lookingpretty grim out here.This is like an amazing,little double chair situationthat I love; it's one piece.And I thought it wouldbe really, really prettyif there were some flowersand things out here'cause this house can tendto feel really masculine.These chairs are notmeant to be put outside.They are very delicate and expensive,but they look so goodout here, so who cares?My cat, Chicken, is buriedhere, which is not funny,but I don't know why I thinkit's funny to tell you that.The pool is heated a little,so I can go in it all the time,and also, it doesn't really get cold here.Let's go up here.These are some stairs thatlead you to this place up here,which is a hot tub.Which is so cold [laughing].Bamboo grows so crazy fast.I don't know if you know that,and my neighbors on thatside are in a war with meabout how high the bambooin the driveway is growing;which is insane becausewhy would I want peopleto be able to see in my house?I can't believe that I'm evenletting you guys in my house!So they can just shove it.This is this gorgeous, randomlyplaced flower arrangement.And that's my bedroom, sneaky!Yeah, let's go back downstairs now.Zeppelin, oh [beep], don't.What are you gonna do?Go get it.That one's probably lost forever.Thank you so much for coming, A.D.I hope you liked the tour of my house,but I really would likefor you to leave now,so, beat it.

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