Inside Famous Homes at Christmas

Architectural Digest

From Kris Jenner to the Vice President of the United States, decorating for the holiday season is a big affair. Today, AD steps inside some famous homes to see how they prepare for Christmas.

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00:00Hi, welcome to my house at Christmas.

00:15Come on in.

00:24I want you to meet my dear friend, Jeff Latham, who is responsible for designing this beautiful

00:30place.

00:31He is the artistic director of Jeff Latham Designs.

00:34You were like Mr. Christmas, but all year long.

00:37Mr. Christmas, but we have so much fun.

00:39All my kids and myself look forward to Christmas every year now because Jeff decorates our

00:44houses and we get so excited.

00:46So I'm going to show you a couple things that he's done this year that blew me away.

00:54Really the start of Christmas is the loading in of the Christmas tree.

00:59And it's amazing how much organization and production goes into just getting the trees

01:05inside and getting them lit.

01:07It took us literally like almost 24 hours just to light everything because we don't

01:10just throw the lights on.

01:11We actually, we go in and then we tie each branch, we pull them in and we go out.

01:15And then we climb up on ladders and we have people holding people and it's this whole

01:18process that takes days.

01:20You know, you've seen so many amazing displays in your home over the years.

01:23So bringing the tree in is always like a big deal.

01:25And I think one of the fun things is just deciding on what the theme of the tree is

01:29going to be because that sets the tone for the entire house.

01:33I said, I want to do something with candy and he came up with this.

01:38And it's like, wow.

01:39The whole aspect of this beautiful black and white marble floor with the red and white

01:43of the tree.

01:44It's about shape.

01:45It's about color.

01:46The theme is Candyland chic.

01:47Candyland with a K.

01:48Candyland with a K chic.

01:49Duh.

01:50Yeah.

01:51Hello.

01:52So you want to show them the living room?

01:53Let's go.

01:57So this living room started with three beautiful reindeer that we found.

02:03And when we discovered that they actually had moving antlers, that was really exciting.

02:09We love these so much that he also recreated it at Chloe's house in Cleveland this year,

02:15which he just finished a couple days ago.

02:16With live snow.

02:17Like cutting down the tree in the forest.

02:19Exactly.

02:20I know.

02:21Well, we don't have live snow.

02:22So we did the second best thing and he created this.

02:26Look what you did here.

02:27Tell me about this.

02:28Well, the whole design of this room is so clean and pure.

02:31We really wanted to focus and not take away from the room itself, but add an art installation.

02:35So instead of doing garland how we have in years past, we created this sculpture.

02:40We like creating things that obviously are Christmas, but something that you could actually

02:44like leave up.

02:45I love the stockings with the fireplace and it kind of just goes with the whole room.

02:49And the reindeer haven't been named yet.

02:51I wanted to do something obvious like Dancer and Prancer, but Mason and Penelope and Rain

02:58and Saint and North are going to choose some names.

03:01So I can't wait for that.

03:02So now, the best thing this year for Christmas and the thing I'm most excited about is my

03:09beautiful red bear.

03:15Jeff is very famous for these amazing magical animals.

03:18He called me from Paris one day and said, we have this shot at getting the guy from

03:23Paris to make you a bear.

03:24And they're actual pieces of art.

03:26I mean, you see, we've never had one of these in the United States.

03:29It was important for us that people saw the bear and saw the tree at the same time.

03:33They're an installation together, actually.

03:34Mason decided it's a boy and his name is Christmas.

03:38It's Christmas.

03:39So Christmas is here.

03:40Christmas is really my time where we're actually able to play with sculpture and design a little

03:44bit more.

03:45So it's our most favorite time of the year.

03:48Yes.

03:49And wait till you see what he did with my table.

03:51So every year, I'm really kind of crazy because I like to set the table and kind of leave

03:57it that way for the whole time.

04:02I enjoy looking at my dishes and bringing everything out and it means it's the holidays.

04:07This year, I went with plaid.

04:09Plaid is very traditional and it reminds me of being in the mountains.

04:14It's very Tommy Hilfiger or Ralph Lauren, you know, that kind of a feel.

04:18So I mixed the plaid with snowmen this year.

04:21I found these great snowmen plates and they look so good together.

04:25But then I really added the glam factor with these gorgeous Christoffel eggs that are so

04:30stunning.

04:31And inside is an entire set of silverware, which I did the gold with the plaid because

04:38I thought it was so dramatic.

04:39You like to mix things together so that there's, you know, there's multi-usage.

04:43And layers.

04:44Exactly.

04:45I like layers.

04:46So we wanted to go off the colors of the plates with the snowmen and obviously the gold.

04:48Usually we do a lot of white flowers in the house, but obviously this year, going off

04:52of the whole fling of the tree and the bear.

04:54With the plaid, we used, you know, just color-blocked these beautiful mounds of red roses with

04:59a touch of black calla, just to add that naughty or nice Christmas.

05:02You know, for us, it's really about whimsical.

05:05It's about fun.

05:06It's about family.

05:07Right.

05:08So it's about sitting at a table and just being excited to be there.

05:10Yes.

05:11So that's why we played with the roses hanging from the chandelier.

05:13It's the tradition with that aspect of mid-century modern and cool.

05:17So this is a table that I'll probably be at a lot.

05:19Yeah.

05:20I'm like, why, Jeff, why are you at my table?

05:21You let Jeff engage.

05:22I know.

05:23I know.

05:24He just won't leave.

05:25He's just sitting there.

05:26He won't leave.

05:27He doesn't leave.

05:28Ever.

05:29We don't want to leave you guys, but he's got a lot of decorating to do.

05:31Yeah.

05:32We're running around.

05:33Yeah.

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