Carmelo Anthony nos lleva a conocer su mansión en Nueva York (y la que podría ser una galería de arte)
La mansión de Carmelo Anthony en Nueva York es el sueño de cualquier amante del arte contemporáneo. La ex estrella de la NBA nos lleva a conocer cada espacio de su casa y la que fue decorada por la diseñadora de interiores Cassandre Bonhomme, logrando un estilo “vintage y moderno”. Aquí, sobran las obras de arte, los colores, la creatividad y el lujo.
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00:00 [laughs]
00:01 What's up, AD?
00:02 I'm Carmelo Anthony.
00:03 Welcome to my home.
00:04 Come on in.
00:05 [upbeat music]
00:08 My big welcome piece upstairs, that's Muhammad Ali.
00:20 That's the focal piece in the house.
00:22 He just gives so much energy, so much spirit,
00:24 so much love when you look at that.
00:26 I've been collecting art almost 15 years now.
00:29 I was always into up-and-coming artists,
00:31 and I just had an eye for what I like.
00:33 And I realized quickly that I don't have to like something
00:37 because somebody else like it.
00:39 I like it because it appeals to my mind,
00:40 it appeals to my spirit, whether it's a dollar or $10.
00:45 This is Swoon.
00:47 She's amazing.
00:48 Grew up maybe three, four blocks away from her
00:52 in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
00:53 And this one, Bakahinde Wiley.
00:56 He did a series of artists,
00:57 I think it was myself, Spike Lee, and Swiss Beats.
01:01 My inspiration behind this,
01:03 well, I'm a big Game of Thrones fan.
01:05 So that's the king right there.
01:07 Come on now, I'm gonna take y'all
01:08 to the most important room in here.
01:10 [upbeat music]
01:12 This is the music room.
01:20 This is the green room.
01:21 There's a lot of details in this place,
01:23 so pay attention to the details.
01:24 This is a big Swoon piece.
01:27 As you can see, I'm a big Swoon fan.
01:29 This is one of my first pair of signature sneakers
01:31 with Jordan brand that I created here in New York.
01:35 One of my first years, first seasons with New York.
01:37 And the artist, Domingo Zapata,
01:39 did something for me at a dinner.
01:41 It was part of a magazine cover release.
01:43 We got a Bakahinde Wiley skateboard, which is amazing.
01:47 All my books, I love to read, love culture.
01:50 I'm an Ali groupie.
01:51 Anywhere you go in the house,
01:52 you always see a picture of Ali.
01:55 So this shovel, the gold shovel,
01:57 this is the shovel we use to break ground
01:59 when we opened Carmelo Anthony Center in Syracuse.
02:04 In this corner right here, this is Nelson Mokomo,
02:07 one of the best black artists,
02:09 South African artists there is.
02:12 He's just amazing, good friend of mine.
02:14 I went to his studio in South Africa,
02:16 and this sketch wasn't even done yet.
02:19 But I told him I wanted it, and now it's here on my wall.
02:22 So this is, they watching us,
02:23 and this is our kids seeing that.
02:25 So that's a very powerful piece by Nelson.
02:28 Here is some of my collection, a little bit.
02:31 Some of them are gifts, some of them I purchased.
02:33 I got Ali speeches.
02:35 One of my favorite prizes over here
02:38 is the Malcolm X Ballad or Bullet speech, live.
02:43 I just think that's one of the most
02:45 powerful speeches of all time.
02:47 [upbeat music]
02:50 [upbeat music]
02:52 Working with Casale, it's always a good, fun,
02:58 when you have a partner and a teammate like that,
03:00 that knows you well and know how you think
03:03 and know your vibe.
03:04 She just worked towards putting that all
03:06 into what this is right here.
03:08 So when you see the different rooms
03:10 and the colors of the rooms,
03:12 it's like different moods of Melo.
03:15 This is a plaque from my mom.
03:18 She gave this to me back in '03.
03:20 20 years ago, she gave this to me just because.
03:24 I love you, Mom.
03:25 All my gold medals.
03:27 I think that's '08, 2012, and '16.
03:31 Now I'll take you to where things
03:33 really get poppin', in the bar.
03:36 [upbeat music]
03:39 So welcome to the bar.
03:44 This is my high school jersey, Oak Hill,
03:46 number 22.
03:48 It's like a little celebratory area.
03:49 Celebrating Oak Hill, celebrating retirement,
03:53 celebrating getting drafted in 2003,
03:56 I'm all wet, and then Don Perignon
03:59 celebrating my 30th birthday.
04:01 Cassandra did a great, great job at picking these lights.
04:05 Some things that I just let her do,
04:07 like some of the fixtures,
04:09 and you just gotta let her bring her creativity out.
04:12 I'll bring you back here to the bar
04:13 so you can see what we have.
04:15 I got into wine probably mid-2000s,
04:17 not knowing what I was doing.
04:19 To fast forward to now,
04:21 I'm very particular with what I drink.
04:23 So as you can see, this is a lot of first growths,
04:26 Bordeaux's up here.
04:28 First growths is like the big boys of the wine game.
04:33 The winemakers been there forever.
04:35 They the first plants that was grown.
04:37 This is a nice little tour,
04:40 and if you wanna have a good time,
04:41 you come over here and have some wine.
04:43 These are Cassandra's right here.
04:46 She gifted these to me.
04:48 We all know who Malcolm is,
04:49 and we all know who Martin is,
04:51 but James Baldwin, y'all need to go read his books
04:54 and listen to his speeches.
04:55 He's one of the most powerful debaters that's out there.
04:58 [upbeat music]
05:01 This is where the checks get cut.
05:05 Nah, I'm kidding.
05:06 The checks get cut in LA.
05:08 This is kind of my sanctuary.
05:10 My book, you know you gotta have the memoir behind you.
05:13 Where Tomorrow's Unpromised.
05:15 The chairs are amazing.
05:17 They're comfortable.
05:18 I did design them myself.
05:20 I wanted to give myself a pat on the back.
05:23 This is not animal skin, okay?
05:24 This is not animal.
05:25 This is nothing animal over here, okay?
05:27 This is faux.
05:28 [upbeat music]
05:31 This is the memorabilia wall right here.
05:33 This is the Ali gloves.
05:35 This is big for me.
05:37 The Social Justice Champion Award.
05:39 So big shout out to Kareem for making me
05:42 the inaugural winner of that.
05:44 [upbeat music]
05:47 I love lounges.
05:50 I love hotel lounges.
05:52 I love hotel lobbies.
05:54 You can just chill, hang out, have a drink,
05:56 coffee, tea, whatever's your preference.
06:00 So this is that vibe over here.
06:01 Hotel, lobby, lounge, area, chess, books.
06:06 You can always read a book.
06:07 Again, details, life fixtures, amazing.
06:12 You gotta keep the snakes with you, you know,
06:14 just in case.
06:15 Keep the snakes with you just in case.
06:17 This is, to me, one of Nelson Mocomo's
06:21 most powerful pieces.
06:23 By the title of this, which is "Forgive Them,"
06:26 I assume that this kid is thinking about
06:30 all that happened to him and it's happening constantly.
06:33 And he's trying to send that message to forgive them.
06:36 If you forgive them, then that burden comes off of you.
06:41 You don't have to live with that no more.
06:43 It's on them now.
06:44 And at the end of the day, we forgive or we don't forgive.
06:47 [upbeat music]
06:50 I didn't want just a standard dining table.
06:56 I don't have formal dinners.
06:57 I don't sit down at the table and have full-fledged dinners.
07:00 So when I'm in here, I wanna eat and be creative
07:03 at the same time, right?
07:04 So Syracuse, you know, you have Define Yourself.
07:08 You have Creative Seven, the production company.
07:11 You have Red Hook, you have Innovate, you have Baltimore,
07:16 and then you have the flag of Puerto Rico
07:19 and greater than that.
07:20 So it gives it a different vibe, an autistic vibe.
07:23 And you don't feel bored.
07:24 I don't like to feel bored in the dining lounge.
07:28 It's just not about having art in the rooms
07:30 and in the house.
07:31 It's about being very intentional on what you put up.
07:34 You know, each room has a different vibe,
07:36 a different mode, so you wanna be intentional
07:38 about what you put in those areas,
07:40 the energies that you put in those rooms.
07:42 [upbeat music]
07:45 I call this the bathroom.
07:49 Some people call it the powder room.
07:51 Surrounding, you know, is my guy.
07:55 You know, you got Ali,
07:55 you got the special wallpaper right here.
07:57 This is flavored paper.
07:59 I know it's a lot of Ali,
08:00 but come on, you can't beat that wallpaper right there.
08:03 [upbeat music]
08:09 I collect shoes because I wear shoes,
08:11 to be honest with you.
08:12 I don't collect them to just let them sit.
08:15 I collect them to wear them.
08:17 I'm an active collector.
08:19 In wine, I collect the drink.
08:21 In sneakers, I collect it to wear.
08:22 In clothes, I collect to wear.
08:25 It's my first signature shoe of all time.
08:27 So this is what kicked it off.
08:30 And now I just wanna be clear.
08:32 I was the first Jordan brand signature athlete ever.
08:39 The first.
08:40 I was just excited to have my own signature shoe
08:42 with a Jordan brand and a brand like that.
08:45 And then we actually made a great shoe.
08:47 So I will always be grateful for this sneaker right here.
08:51 [upbeat music]
08:54 So these Jordans right here,
08:58 my son actually designed these or created these.
09:01 So these are his, as you can see.
09:02 Cayenne.
09:05 And this is called the What The Cayenne,
09:08 instead of What The [beep]
09:09 What The Cayenne.
09:10 My first pair of Jordans I didn't get
09:13 until my senior year in high school at Oak Hill.
09:15 And that was only because they was
09:17 a Jordan sponsored school team.
09:19 And that was my first pair of Jordans.
09:23 So now going from that to being the first signature athlete
09:28 at a Jordan brand, after never being able to have a pair,
09:32 it's full circle.
09:35 [upbeat music]
09:38 [upbeat music]
09:40 The best thing about this room is this bed.
09:43 Oversized bed, comfortable bed.
09:47 If you don't sleep well, your day don't go well, right?
09:50 Over here, again, there's Nelson McComo
09:52 everywhere all over the house.
09:53 But this particular portrait is the perfect image.
09:58 It's the perfect energy that you need
10:02 outside of it being a great painting
10:04 and the messaging behind it.
10:06 I just think, you just gotta get a look at the eyes
10:10 and then you can see the soul of this actual room.
10:13 This may be one of the most powerful pieces that I have.
10:17 When we talk about the money,
10:18 money being the root of all evil.
10:20 And some people say you change when you get money, right?
10:23 So when you got the money, put the face on.
10:27 Jay-Z said it best, you can try to change,
10:28 but that's just the top layer.
10:30 You are who you are before you got here.
10:32 So no matter how much money you got,
10:35 you will always be who you are behind that mask.
10:38 [upbeat music]
10:41 This is my mindfulness meditation.
10:49 You can hear the waterfall flowing.
10:51 This room doesn't need art.
10:52 The thoughts in your mind is, that's the brush, right?
10:56 So every way you wanna paint this canvas, you do that.
11:00 You know, it was intimidating at one point in time.
11:02 You need to meditate.
11:03 You need to like, it's intimidating.
11:05 But once you find out your space,
11:09 that you can go to that space and you can sit there
11:11 and you can be still and you can breathe
11:13 and you can embrace it, the thoughts,
11:16 but let them go one at a time.
11:18 So I've been able to do that for a while.
11:22 Yeah, it helps me.
11:26 I recommend it.
11:27 And I recommend you to find you a sanctuary like this
11:32 where you can get away for a couple minutes a day
11:34 and breathe and get your mind right
11:37 and reset and bounce back.
11:39 [upbeat music]
11:42 This is my son's room.
11:48 As you can see, he got, you know, his favorite players,
11:52 his uncles.
11:54 These are like family to him.
11:56 These are important.
11:57 This was a stop the violence campaign.
11:59 This is Trayvon Martin.
12:01 We got Malcolm X.
12:02 We got Jam Master Jay.
12:04 We got Biggie, Tupac, Big L.
12:06 So this was a hip hop series that was created
12:09 for kind of stop the violence and stop the shooting.
12:12 And so you put them on a stop sign and do 90 signs.
12:16 And this is his room.
12:17 16 years old.
12:18 I try to stay out this room.
12:20 [upbeat music]
12:24 All right, AD.
12:29 I let y'all come in my crib.
12:30 Now it's time for y'all to get on out of here.
12:32 I gotta get back to work.
12:33 See y'all soon.
12:34 Peace out.
12:35 [upbeat music]
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