so you didn't make it for me
not for you specifically oh wow i mean i
feel like every garment i make
or have always made
has been for you in a way
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hi i'm emily adams bodie and i'm aaron
ajla and we're in our apartment in
chinatown new york city
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this apartment is a reflection of kind
of the things that emily and i have
collected over the years but also the
things that we've made and different
iterations of things that we've made
that just kind of find itself at home
here it's kind of ever changing and ever
evolving i think it it kind of takes its
starting point from like a cape cod
modern
point of view maybe there's elements of
it that feel kind of coastal or marine
but also kind of american modernism
something like that i would say probably
like 80
of the stuff in this in this place is we
made and then the rest is kind of just
emily
emily always brings home like bags and
boxes of things
all the time yeah so they're just like
they just kind of randomly show up and
then i kind of figure out where they go
the size of the kitchen is largely
determined by
my closet that is exactly true the
kitchen was gonna be bigger but it's
smaller because behind it is emily's
closet and i have like two feet of the
closet myself
emily got this for me maybe like three
or four years ago it's a walnut show but
it has a face on it i had hid that in my
car for you as a gift and then he was in
my car and was like what's this i really
like this yeah the guy i bought it from
didn't really know the origin or
what exactly it was it doesn't look like
it was a part of something else it looks
like it was just a tiny little craft
that someone had made but it's like a
carved walnut shell no it's like a it's
a card
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this is one of the first jackets i ever
made this was a piece that
i had shown
i think in my first collection or
definitely my first collection
and aaron had always loved it
i'm so glad that he kept it because we
really don't have anything from those
first few seasons i never saw a quilt
jacket before
that was it what makes this jacket rare
is the fact that it's completely lined
in feed socks the quilt block pattern is
called streak of lightning a lot of
people refer to it as stairs or
staircase
and you can see there's little novelty
prints from like a children's fabric
maybe like a pajama fabric or a dress
fabric intermingled with different
indigos and khakis so you didn't make it
for me
not for you specifically oh wow i mean i
feel like every garment i make
or have always made has been for you in
a way
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now sitting at our kitchen table or
dining room table i guess they're one in
the same thing we're in the dining room
we're in the dining room i have a design
studio called green river project with
ben bloomstein we made this table
together this is black cherry i think we
love pieces of furniture especially that
have kind of a narrative behind it that
it wasn't made in mass quantities you
know i think what we love are these
pieces that have some sort of ephemera
quality to it our goal was just to
furnish a home as opposed to make
something beautiful i
i think it looks good i don't think it's
like the best dining table i don't think
it's the most beautiful dining table but
we like it
we do have the problem where sometimes
the chairs tip over we'll have people
over who we're not very close to
and i'll say oh that chair tips you know
because it's only three legs
they're like no no it's fine and then
five minutes later they're on the floor
it's like a milking stool but basically
what happens is
if you're if you're new to to our house
and you come over and you sit down like
this
and then you're just talking people
people go over but the chair the stool
looks good so it's like a icebreaker i
feel like at booty we have a similar
problem especially when i first launched
the brand where our clothes were made to
be worn but no one could actually wear
them they would like fall apart on your
body because they were made from
textiles from the 1800s you know we're
making this thing but you know be
careful what you do with it
so this is a dog bed for monday
that we made really quick because we
kind of got them quickly it's mahogany
and then the textile is is emily's i
collect towels from the 1960s and 1970s
and this one you particularly liked in
my studio so i was like well we can use
it for something it was cool to make
something for a dog and it's just kind
of he like chews the edge
it's monday's house
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so we're sitting here in our living room
senior cords are something that came
about
in indiana at purdue university in the
early 1900s the story goes
that some seniors saw a bolt of corn
colored corduroy in the window
and they made trousers and then since
then people have been adorning
their corduroys with everything from
like class schedules to inside jokes and
to little drawings it really was like
signing your yearbook and
you kind of see
similar techniques on friendship quilts
or signature shirts but these really do
have everything from you know the car
that you drive to the sports that you
played and in a lot of these colors
and use of
you know the trimmings
really informed this couch that aaron
drew on with one of our best friends and
this is our senior cord couch
there's like a lobster by brock
there's a tiger there from a delicla
painting you know so there's just lots
of different like small things but the
thing is like people have like spilled
stuff on the sofa and we just draw over
it and monday too it just
it's pretty cool because you can kind of
just keep drawing on the sofa
this is something that i saved from my
childhood home this is my mom
then my sister made it and you know i i
guess she made the whole family but i
really was drawn to
the one she did of my mom and i've
carried this
with me to all of my apartments i i
really like it and she has blue eyes my
mom definitely does not have blue eyes
yeah let's see
you can see where she pinched the feet
to make make her stand up and
i i honestly wish i had saved more of
these little ceramics that we made as
children
why i'm into handcrafts and into
more like domestic crafts are
because of the way that i was raised in
schools that i went to
they really cherished working with your
hands and they encouraged working with
your hands you know getting the most out
of out of an art practice
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do you want to do it oh you got
this is probably
our most favorite room in the house it's
definitely my favorite room
it's our bathroom
no you said something
i thought it was so nice to be able to
cover the walls in the ceiling and the
floor
entirely and
so this bathroom is kind of like a
separate room from the the rest of the
apartment so when the door is closed it
kind of feels like you're in a different
kind of universe this is a bathtub that
emily wanted the position of the bathtub
is very intentional i had only wanted a
bathtub in here if we could in fact look
directly out our window so aaron had to
kind of rejig the entire
plumbing system in our apartment to
figure out how to be able to have one
have a view while they're taking a bath
that took four guys to bring it in
it didn't fit in our elevator
it went up seven flights but our our dog
monday really likes the tub he goes in
the tub at least once a day and it's a
antique tub a lot of the fixtures in our
house we found at
salvage places
probably one of my favorite things in
this room is this curtain
this was my
grandmother's lace
definitely for use on the table but
aaron had the idea of putting a lot of
our lace collection on our windows but
this one's especially
valuable to me because it was my
grandmother's but also because there's
little shamrock clovers all over it
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thanks for coming by
and checking out our apartment right we
had a pretty good time
showing you around
no thanks for coming and checking out
our apartment i hope you enjoyed it
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you