THE NEXT JEN

JENNIFER ANISTON has faced down tabloid scrutiny, stalkers, and a relentless fictionalization of her love life-Barack Obama! Pedro Pascal! but as the fourth season of her hit The Morning Show debuts, America's favorite girl next door has leveled up to a whole new sphere of envy-inducing zen

- JULIE MILLER

TO GET TO Jennifer Aniston's sanctuary, you climb up, up, up, into the hills of Los Angeles. Past mansions shielded by millions of dollars in manicured privacy hedges. Past the gate an alleged stalker crashed into in May, which is now being surveilled by a police cruiser and a private 24/7 detail. Past the security guard handing out NDAs to visitors, aside from this journalist. And through the towering front doors of her $21 million home.

The world is a burning hellscape, a fact explored through fictional reporters trying to chase it down in Aniston's Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show. But the actor has learned in her many years of stardom, and all its attendant bumps, how to block out the noise and calm the nervous system. Or how to try, at least.

This midcentury home, designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons, is an oasis. There are soft cream couches, white peonies, and white taper candles accenting the living room. One wall is nothing but a panoramic window overlooking Los Angeles, with a view stretching from Downtown to the Pacific. There are no screens or ambient sound. Whether it is this blanket of silence or the accoutrements on her coffee table-a raw amethyst (known for spiritual growth or inner peace), a white crystal (purity, clarity), an incense holder decorated with crows (knowledge, transformation) amid design books her home has the anxiety-suppressing effect of a spa.