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Did anyone else love Adam's apartment?


I just love mid century modern furniture and this apartment was fantastic. I loved the loft bedroom, the sunken kitchen/bar area, the living room with the fabulous Eames Lounge Chair and the beautiful fireplace. This is my dream apartment.

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can you imagine what it would cost today???

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Especially in that neighborhood?

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I was just thinking about that. I wanted to do a rendering of the loft so I am asking anyone for screenshots.

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well i didnt realize i had a dream apartment until i saw this place. Everything about it is just perfect. Its funny because I'm looking for a new place to live and I know that nothing will compare to this perfect apartment. damn movie!

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I love New York City, and I love that apartment! Any New Yorkers out there know how much an apartment like that would cost today?

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that apartment is so nice and cosy, and has such character...yes I love it too.

When I saw the exposed brick..I got to thinking of the more recent sand-blasted gentrified renovations taking place all over North America and the world...the hip people think they know what they are doing....but it's ahrd to beat this... the real honest deal, with no pretensions

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I love the apartment so much that it was the reason why I came here. I wanted to see if other people felt like I did. At one point I paused the screen and just looked at every detail. Someone else said what I was thinking "I didn't know I had a dream apartment until I saw this one". The skylight over the bed, the fireplace, the sunken kitchen, the shutters to the bedroom, the views, the furniture, the Peter Nero albums, the location, the furniture and style -- I wonder whose apartment it was and if it still exists.

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No. Not a real apartment. Clearly a fantasy set built on a Hollywood sound stage. (Okay, might have been on a New York soundstage, since they obviously did tons of location shooting in NYC, but definitely a set. A great set where they hit all the right buttons though.)

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It IS a Midcentury Modern dream, but . . . kitchen's too small and the bathroom probably also. Still, during every scene set there, I was imagining throwing the world's most fabulous cocktail party!

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I first saw this movie as a kid in the late 60's/early 70's and it was my introduction to lofts and exposed brick. So sophisticated and urbane. I loved it!

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I liked the apartment, but I like to think it more a "man cave" than an apartment. Did you notice how he decorated here and there with anti-aircraft shells? Oh, and how 'bout the way he had a mass of pictures stuck on the brick wall to the right of the fireplace, but to the left, there was this huge expanse of bare brick - not a single picture hanging anywhere in that vast space. Now is that a 'real man' doing the decorating, or what?? lol

Well, all I can add is that it's too bad his sister showed up unexpectedly. Because he sure would have had a great place to, uh, "entertain" Mona!





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The movie was adopted from a stage play appearing on Broadway in 1961-1962 with just the 4 main characters plus two untitled people appearing in it. I'm willing to bet that the loft apartment was the only set with the different rooms lit as the characters moved about. The chief pilot, Mona, etc. were not in the play.

If you watch the movie again, the scenes in the apartment are talky in a stage play way with the other scenes outside the apartment added to expand the production.

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Watching it right now! I had seen it several years ago and remembered the great loft apartment! Wow! It's even better than I remembered.. Love all the glassware and wooden accessories (60's Dansk-ware).

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Yes...I loved it!

Jane Fonda must have had one hell of a time making a movie with three gorgeous guys...especially Cliff Robertson..what an absolute cutie he was!

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Those guys were nice looking, but none of them could hold a candle to Jim Hutton, who has an uncredited appearance in this film. He's the one in the boat, holding the radio. I wish that he had a bigger part in this movie.

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen

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Just finished watching this movie a few minutes ago on TCM. First time I'd ever seen it. I couldn't get over that apt setup.

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