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The Prop Master's Nest
New York magazine
|April 7-20, 2025
The eye doesn't know where to look first in Shawn Patrick Anderson's East Village duplex.
SHAWN PATRICK ANDERSON is a professional collector of stuff. Most of it is stored at Acme Brooklyn, the prop house he co-owns that lends objects and furniture to TV shows, film, and photo shoots. "SNL rents from us a lot," he says. The rest comes home with him.
This story is from the April 7-20, 2025 edition of New York magazine.
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