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- Hi AD, I'm Michael Imperioli, welcome to my home.
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Come in.
This is the entranceway, the hallway.
Everything you see here was chosen.
A lot of it was installed and, thought out by Victoria,
my wife Victoria who's an interior designer
as well as a set designer and it's all her vision.
It's always like an element of fantasy and New York's a busy
place and this takes you away
from that to someplace other worldly and homey.
Dante, Dante Allegari, who's Dante?
The Inferno Paradiso Divine Comedy.
Come on in.
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So this is the living Room.
This building was built in the '20s,
and it was originally a hotel, which was kind of cool.
It was kind of like residential hotel
like you'd stay for a long time, I guess.
And originally it was a restaurant
and ballroom and things like that.
And we kind of like that vibe.
We kind of thought of it as like a cool hotel suite,
to me like if you walk in here,
this could easily be an apartment from like the jazz age
in New York, which is kind of cool.
It takes you away from the hectic pace of modern life.
I think for me it does, if you notice there's no modern art
in the house.
So everything is kind of, for me, it's like transporting
something about that is comforting.
Victoria designs these spaces in mind to be calming,
comforting, homey, and inspiring,
and artistically, intellectually.
But this is just comfortable.
And there's you get kind of a little city scape.
You see a little bit of Central Park over there.
Let me show you the study.
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I play music here, write music,
do a lot of work on the computer here.
Read in here.
We teach a meditation class on Sundays
and we do it from this room too.
That's Beatrice that was Dante's Muse
and love who inspired him.
And that's a marble of her,
that's probably my favorite piece, maybe in the house.
I just love that one.
The screens are from Studio Dante
which was a off Broadway theater that we opened
and produced new plays and the screens we'd use just
as backdrops behind whoever was on stage.
They kind of have like a Pompeian Roman influence
but I think the mask is based on Greek tragedy, comedy,
that would be tragedy obviously.
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Most of these books are probably from the last 10 years
although there's probably a couple that I've carried
with me since I was really young.
This I've had since I was like 19,
"100 Years of Solitude" by Garcia Marquez.
Actually, this, I've had for a really long time.
This is "Interviews, Essays and Notes"
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
I've had this since I was maybe 32 years.
I have a really cool, they're not very organized,
so I don't know where things are all the time,
but, oh, maybe this one.
Sometimes I have dates in them,
but I got this book when I was about 19, 1985.
This is a novel by Pasolini,
another one of my favorite filmmakers.
I stole this actually from somebody not stole it.
He lent it to me and he really wanted it back
and I never gave it back to him.
I try not to steal anymore.
Back then when I was young, I didn't have
as many qualms about it.
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I usually write on this guitar.
This is not a particularly fancy or valuable guitar
but I've had it for 32 years.
A lot of songs that I write start on this one.
Although I'd mostly play electric guitar with the band Zopa.
But we use this on the new album in a few songs.
But it does have a nice, even though it's.
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This is a Mustang.
My son made this guitar.
I'll show you a cool one that somebody just made.
This was made by my friend Cindy, Cindy Hula,
who works out of Carmine Street Guitars,
and they make guitars out of wood
from old New York buildings.
So the neck of this guitar was made from wood
that was recovered during the renovation
of the Chelsea Hotel which is somewhere I lived at one time.
So it kind of has a specific meaning,
and the body was from an old bar called Chumley's
that was in Greenwich Children, was a speakeasy at one time.
This was bought in Taraina Sicily
in a store that's actually mentioned in "The White Lotus."
And it's a secret, safe kind of.
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This was a closet, a walk-in closet
that we converted into a shrine room
as we practice Buddhism, Tibetan tradition.
So these are Tonko paintings.
They're traditional paintings.
They're really used for practice,
for meditation to inspire your practice.
A guided meditation.
We don't have time for that
but you could take a deep breath
and that's sometimes that's enough to just reset.
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This is the bedroom.
It's a good room for sleeping, even though
it's as you can see right in the middle of this city,
clothes, closet space.
I have a lot of clothes that I've just had for a long time.
I have one suit that I'll show you.
One interesting suit that I have.
So this suit belonged to Christopher Moltisanti
from "The Sopranos."
This is in Giorgio Armani suit
that he wore on the show, well I wore as him.
It's still kind of cool, so.
Victoria's very specific about colors
and how colors affect mood.
So this is a very soothing one, the color and the vibe.
There's a glow
to it that's very comforting and relaxing.
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TV's obscured by a screen, so it's not just
this big black thing, dominating the room.
I watch "American Dad" a lot.
That's my favorite TV show by far actually.
In this room there's some more little statues
and objects and books.
It's nice being surrounded by beautiful things.
Those are our children, Isabella, David and Badin
when they were really young.
They're all adults and on their own.
Empty Nest is fantastic.
No offense to the kids, but it's really cool actually.
We see the kids a lot
but it's kind of a new chapter and a good one.
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So this is the kitchen, it's a small kitchen.
Like I said, this building was a hotel
so you're not doing kind of elaborate big things
but it's just, it's enough.
My kids like "Chopped" and they said, you should go on.
You'll win if you go on, because I'm pretty good
at cooking stuff out of whatever's in the fridge.
And yeah, I wound up winning the tournament.
Lately I've been making really good vegetarian meatballs
out of Impossible meat.
I make 'em exactly like traditional ones with the same
except substituting fake meat for real.
And they taste really good.
What do I have in the fridge?
I don't know.
Leftovers from last night's restaurant dinner.
I could cook you some scrambled eggs if you want?
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Okay, thanks for stopping by.
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