Inner Space

Tucked away on a Hollywood street lined with historic old movie stages, the prolific film and TV producer Ryan Murphy has quietly created a home for his extensive offices. An intentional canvas of calming neutrals that promote clarity and let creativity bubble to the fore, the interiors - for which Murphy enlisted the help of designer Jeremiah Brent to realise his vision - also took inspiration from the futuristic film set of the Netflix mini-series, Halston, on which Murphy acted as executive producer. He takes us on a tour inside...

- By Ryan Murphy

Jeremiah Brent was always the coolest dad at nursery drop-off. I have a vision of him, picking up his daughter Poppy while my son Ford looked on balefully. So well dressed, so collected, almost always in white or beige or black in fantastic drapey fabrics. He was ‘quiet luxury’ incarnated before that term became a pop culture phrase.

It was this quality that made me instantly think of hiring him when it came to doing a new office compound for me and my 50-strong employees. Previously, I had done my office on the Fox Studio lot in a sort of Californian earthy aesthetic – all tobacco silk rugs, industrial tables and odd art mixed with vintage Nakashima lamps and artefacts. But this time around, I wanted something new and modern.