The Swell Life
Marie Claire - US|December 2016

Having Gracefully Navigated the Pitfalls of Fame, Jennifer Aniston— Who Stars in This Month’s Raunchy Comedy Office Christmas Party— Is Charting Her Next Destination.

Kimberly Cutter
The Swell Life

Jennifer Aniston likes working from home, and once you see her home, it’s not hard to guess why. Up, up, up the steep, windy roads of Los Angeles you go, through discreet, dark-green gates that open as if by magic, and into a sumptuous modernist compound that might best be described as “The Aman That Friends Built.” Aniston stands waiting in the massive front doorway—tiny, tanned, and smiling. “Hi!” she says, ushering me inside along with her three boisterous dogs (Dolly, Sophie, and Clyde), who are clearly working hard not to jump up on the guest.

At 47, Aniston has the wry humor of someone who finds life  alternatingly fascinating and baffling. Her feet are bare; her hair is tawny, her husky blue eyes twinkling. “Come on in,” she says, guiding me through the house—a charcoal toned hugeness of glass and air with dark wood floors and endless views out over the city. The art is big and modern, the furniture long and low, with a few well chosen statement pieces: A Chagall here, a massive amethyst crystal there, a pair of oversize ebony hands framing the fireplace. “I get very involved with doing my houses,” says Aniston, who bought the place with her then boyfriend, Justin Theroux, in 2012, and was married to him here last year. “Luckily, I worked with an architect who didn’t mind.”

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