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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Emma Brockes

Interior design ideas: illustrator Oliver Jeffers' New York home - in pictures

Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Illustrator Oliver Jeffers in his living room
British-born artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers at home in Brooklyn, New York. He shares the tiny apartment with his wife, Suzanne, and the pair rent a huge studio a few minutes' Vespa-ride away.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Living room with fireplace and mezzanine window
You can glimpse the small mezzanine bedroom above the sofa, accessed through the hallway.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Three bird ornaments hung on cream coloured wall
Jeffers fills his home with his own, usually quirky, artworks.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Bookshelf with picture above hung on wall
The thrift-store look can feel contrived, but here the pieces all fit. A roll-top desk from Craigslist was bought purely to fit the even smaller space in their previous apartment, above which sits this book-filled shelf.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: framed blackboards on cream wall
Chalkboard signs in the hallway in Jeffers' unmistakeable script, as seen in his children's books – since 2004's How To Catch A Star, he has published roughly a book a year.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Retro bathroom cabinet with cross on door
A reclaimed bathroom cabinet.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: hats on a stand
A simple display in the panelled hallway.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: illustrator Oliver Jeffers' studio with paints and pens on table
Jeffers' studio, in nearby Cobble Hill. It enables him and Suzanne to cut off from work at home where they gather in the kitchen with friends, or head down to the boardwalk that looks out on the spectacular Manhattan skyline.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
Homes - Oliver Jeffers: Illustrator Oliver Jeffers in his studio
"In my studio I have a huge blackboard I write on. Crossing things off lists is probably my favourite thing to do. Sometimes, I’ll even add something on to a list that I’ve already done, just so I can cross it off.”
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott
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