18 Clever Ways to Hide Your Television
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There are times— Super Bowl Sunday or the Oscars , for instance—when you want your television front and center, but there’s no reason it needs to be a focal point the rest of the year. Whether hidden in cabinets or behind paintings, TVs can be concealed in a multitude of clever ways—and can often be revealed at the touch of a button. These rooms from the AD archives show stylish ways to keep your television out of sight but still right at hand whenever the urge for a Netflix binge strikes. See if you can guess where top design talents have hidden TVs in these chic projects and discover creative solutions for disguising your own screens.
In the master bedroom of a John Lautner–designed Malibu beach house revitalized by Waldo Fernandez, Jean Royère–style poufs clad in a de Le Cuona linen are grouped on a cashmere carpet by Mansour Modern. The coverlet is made of a Lee Jofa linen, the walnut cabinet conceals a pop-up television, and the concrete fireplace is original to the house.
In Beverly Hills, a row of crape myrtles screens a Marmol Radziner–designed master bedroom , which is appointed with a Barcelona chair and ottoman by Knoll and a bespoke bed—all covered in Spinneybeck leathers. The bedding is by Pratesi, the lamps are by Robert Kuo for McGuire, and the custom-made chests and television cabinet are cerused oak; the painting is a 1960 work by Adolph Gottlieb.
Reclaimed peroba planks sheathe Anderson Cooper's master bedroom in Brazil , which is anchored by an Uxua Casa four-poster dressed with white linens and diaphanous mosquito netting; the top trunk at the foot of the bed conceals a television.
Gathered around designer Emily Summers's California living room fireplace are a Warren Platner settee, lounge chair, and ottoman, all upholstered in a fabric from Cowtan & Tout, and a wicker chair by Marc Newson; the panels over the fireplace, clad in a hand-painted Porter Teleo wallpaper, conceal a television. Between the glass doors is an Eric Schmitt console, surmounted by a Jim Dine lithograph.
Talent agent Kevin Huvane called on designer Michael S. Smith to renovate his mansion in Los Angeles . A pop-up television unit by David Iatesta stands at the foot of a Queen Anne–style bed in a guest room; the table lamps are from Christopher Spitzmiller, the circa-1900 chest of drawers is from Lee Stanton Antiques, and the circa-1750 lacquer armchair is from Hollyhock.
Interior decorator Christopher Maya designed the bed and television cabinet at its foot in a guest room at the Hamptons home of entrepreneur J. Christopher Burch. A China Seas fabric sheathes the walls; the bedding is by Matouk, the lamps are from Treillage, and the carpet is by Merida Meridian.
In the bedroom of Jennifer Aniston’s former Beverly Hills home, decorator Stephen Shadley designed the platform bed, which has a motorized television lift topped with Rogers & Goffigon fabric.
Agnes Martin’s Untitled #1 hangs above a custom-made lacquer-and-steel buffet that houses a television in the living area of arts patron Emily Fisher Landau’s Palm Beach loft, which was designed by James Aman and Anne Carson.
In the living room of a Chicago apartment designed by Jean-Louis Deniot, the print above the mantel scrolls away to reveal a television.
A VCA motorized cabinet containing a Samsung television stands at the foot of the bed in the master suite of a Long Island residence renovated by architect Thierry Despont; the Murano-glass chandelier is by Barovier & Toso.
In the living room of Giorgio Armani’s Saint-Tropez retreat, the cocktail table, which conceals a pop-up television, was custom designed by the Armani/Casa team, while the leather club chairs and large floor cushions were acquired locally. The ceiling, bookcases, and floor are made of polished African teak.
The master bedroom of casino-resort mogul Steve Wynn’s Manhattan pied-à-terre is designed around a Sandra Jordan alpaca plaid, which decorator Roger Thomas also used in the home’s billiard room; the custom-made television cabinet at the foot of the bed is by Eric Brand, and the resin side table is by Oly.
In the study of a Nantucket retreat designed by Botticelli & Pohl Architects and interior designer Elissa Cullman, the television is concealed by a 1964 Mitzi Melnicoff oil painting, which is hung on a motorized track above the fireplace.
Architect Simon Jacobsen hid a television behind a picture frame at the base of a bookcase in the upper living room of his Washington, D.C., home.
In the study of a Manhattan apartment updated by Shelton, Mindel & Assoc., an imposing walnut-and-bronze fireplace wall conceals the television.
An 18th-century Chinese cabinet hides a television in the master bedroom of a home designed by architects Torsten Bessel and Dimitris Vathrakokoilis on the Greek island of Paros; the floors are tiled with Naxos marble.
The heirloom headboard in the master bedroom of a Manhattan apartment designed by Courtney Coleman and Bill Brockschmidt is surrounded by 19th-century bird portraits by Hannah Pettigrew; a printed cotton from Claremont is used throughout, and at the foot of the bed is a cabinet, upholstered in an Old World Weavers velvet, that contains a television; the needlepoint rug is by Stark.
A Celia Rogge photograph on an easel conceals a flat-screen television in the master bedroom of designer Alexa Hampton’s Manhattan apartment; the chair, from Hampton’s collection for Hickory Chair, is covered in a Lee Jofa tiger-striped velvet.