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It started with the windows. Fourteen years ago, WME accomplice and motion account administration arch Adam Venit and his wife, Trina, bought a 13,000-square-foot abode in a gated association on a Beverly Hills ridgeline. It angry out that the house, a blueprint project, was congenital with no weather-stripping on any of the windows or doors. So in 2013, recalls Trina, "we started with one allowance and redoing a brace of windows, and the blow is history. It angry into a absolute home renovation."
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The Madison Bar | the madison bar and kitchenRenovation may be too aerial a chat for it. The brace concluded up not alone gutting the absolute place, installing a beyond basin and abacus a 2,000-square-foot addition but additionally embarking on a aesthetic adventure calm that saw them carelessness their acceptable Tuscan appearance and embrace abreast architecture and art in exuberant, showstopping ways. "It acclimated to be a big, white Tuscan box. It was congenital like a McMansion," recalls Adam, 54. Now their home — the accommodate was completed two years ago — is abundantly layered with adventurous patterns and color, an ever-growing art accumulating and an all-embracing faculty of archness befitting an abettor who has represented Adam Sandler for 28 years, from the bar stools in the active allowance shaped like derrieres (Trina won't say from whom they are molded) to the peacock feather-covered crumb room. "It's the best abundant abode I've anytime been in," says Creed amateur Michael B. Jordan, one of Adam's clients. Adds Million Dollar Listing brilliant Josh Altman, a acquaintance and neighbor: "They haven't been abashed to booty chances. I told Trina she is one of the best autogenous designers who's not accomplishing it professionally and accept asked if she would advice with my own house." Pieces in their art accumulating accommodate a video assignment by Jennifer Steinkamp of flowers alarming in a breeze, works by their acquaintance (and Adam's client) Shepard Fairey and a alternation of all-embracing photos of a Japanese backwoods by Takeshi Shikama that band the capital alley downstairs. "Because our abode is so colorful, the alley is like the decompression zone," says Trina, 48. Jokes Adam: "I break out of the way — my wife created best of the house. She's aesthetic and aerial in her thinking." Trina, who formed with a aggregation that included architectural close Abramson Teiger Architects and artisan Lara Fishman of Storm Interiors, commissioned a bulk of custom creations for the property. Out on the patio, rather than a archetypal pergola, there's a brownish anatomy shaped like a timberline that shades the alfresco kitchen; created by sculptor Gerard Basil Stripling, it appearance both lighting and misters. "This is one of the coolest things Trina did. She didn't appetite to aloof do article normal, you know?" says Adam.
To accord pop to the media room, Trina affianced artisan Mike Stilkey to actualize one of his signature installations, in which he paints a illustration on the spines of dozens of shelved books. Stilkey's painting is meant to represent the Venit family, depicting a brace dancing and bristles birds in flight, blame the couple's bristles children. They've had two calm — Matthew, 14, and Olivia, 16. Adam additionally has two kids from a antecedent marriage, twins Michael and Sarah, 24; and Trina has a babe from a antecedent marriage, Madison, 26. "This abode is abounding all the time. I adulation it, adulation accepting babble and lots of kids," says Trina. "I think, maybe selfishly, I capital to accomplish the abode fun so our kids would consistently appetite to be here, like, 'OK, you accept no acumen to leave. There's a basin table. There's ping-pong.' "
The nine-bedroom abode (three accept been adapted into a yoga room, gym and playroom) accommodates her husband's assignment in admirable ambience as well. The new addition not alone added the media allowance — featuring a 100-inch TV and a basilica beam covered in acoustic copse panels laid out in a addle arrangement — but additionally a ample blooming leather-lined home appointment for Adam, who has been at WME aback its birth in 2009 and ahead formed at Endeavor starting in 1996. Afore that, CAA, breadth he began in the mailroom alongside Ari Emanuel. He begin his aboriginal job in the industry during his apprentice years at UCLA: "There was a handwritten 3-by-5 agenda in the university's career-placement center. It was afore computers. It said, 'Work for a Director.' I was activity to address the cardinal down, but I was acute abundant to say, 'Well, if I booty the agenda …' It was my entrée to Hollywood, and I formed for Ron [Howard] for four years — for free, by the way."
Today, his starry applicant account includes Gal Gadot, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin James, Vince Vaughn, Steve Martin, Dustin Hoffman and admiral Shawn Levy and Marc Forster. Aback he's rolling calls from home — some of his added contempo deals accommodate acceptable Stallone to let Ryan Coogler accomplish Creed, putting calm Sandler's four-picture Netflix acceding and negotiating Gadot's advantage for the Wonder Woman aftereffect — the abettor sits in a blooming velvet-upholstered best Edward Wormley for Dunbar armchair abaft a angled Ceccotti "Bean" desk. On how her bedmate conducts business, Trina says, admiringly: "I'll say, 'I adulation the actuality that you aloof absolutely fought adamantine for that being to get vacation time.' Or, maybe it was a woman who was pregnant, an actress, who bare added time with her baby. So he was alive adamantine to accomplish abiding that that happened because it wasn't about the money; it was about that person's happiness. I bethink Adam saying, 'Well, selfishly, I appetite them to be blessed because you apperceive it comes aback to me.' But I don't anticipate that's egocentric at all. I anticipate that's beautiful."
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The pair's alert and in-love personalities appear through in Trina's Instagram postings, such as a video she aggregate beforehand this year of Adam bench-pressing her absolute anatomy and addition one of them authoritative pancakes in a pinup-girl architecture with a PancakeBot printer. They additionally booty seven account anniversary day to meditate, usually in a allowance on the additional attic committed to blackout and reflection, breadth a chandelier by South African lighting architect Willowlamp forms a mandala aback looked at anon from below. Trina has been apperception for a few years now, anytime aback Adam's applicant Russell Brand took her to a Kundalini yoga chic with longtime abecedary Tej Kaur Khalsa; Adam aloof got into it. "It absolutely afflicted my life," says Trina. "It's affectionate of funny now because Adam will be the one to say, 'Let's go meditate.' "
The couple, affiliated for 18 years, met aback Adam (who grew up in Cleveland) visited the set of the 1997 TV cine Bad to the Bone, starring his then-client Kristy Swanson. Trina (who was aloft in upstate New York, Anaheim and Tempe, Arizona) was alive on the blur as a architecture artisan for appropriate effects. A ample accumulation went to banquet one night. "Adam was aloof a funny guy," recalls Trina of aboriginal affair him. "At the time, he was married." Says Adam, "Nothing happened." A year later, Swanson told Trina, "You should date my agent. He's not affiliated anymore." To this day, Trina brand to blow fun at Adam for what he said aback he alleged — two weeks after — to ask her out. "He says, 'I'd like to booty you to coffee,' and I thought, 'That's a absolutely chic affair to say.' Again he goes, 'Yeah, 'cause I'd absolutely like to get the brawl rolling.' I aloof anticipate it's so funny." Adam adds: "She's admirable and air-conditioned and actual altered from me. I was aflame about it."
Nearly two decades later, they've created a attenuated family. Trina's ex-husband came forth with them on a cruise to Israel for the bar account of Adam and Trina's son. And Adam's ex and her aggregation will be their guests for Thanksgiving. "This year we're agreeable Adam's ex-wife, her new bedmate and her new husband's accouchement from his antecedent marriage," says Trina. In the years aback they've met, Trina chock-full alive as a architecture artisan and has boarded on a array of pursuits, including starting and active an amoebic baby-food aggregation for four years and bearing a documentary and coffee-table book, both blue-blooded Aroused, about women in the porn industry. She's now designing her own flat in their home, which, aback completed, will accept three walls covered with a blown-up photo of a basin in Scotland. "I like to sit on the attic and address and draw and sculpture. I absolutely appetite it to be a abode breadth I'm activity to be able to leave my art food out."
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The basin breadth and alfresco dining allowance (which is amidst by a checkered metal cobweb curtain) is breadth a lot of the couple's absorbing takes place. "My wife and I adulation activity over to appointment Trina and Adam and their kids," says Million Dollar Listing's Altman, "especially evenings about the pool. It twinkles with fiber-optic lights assuming the Milky Way. It's one of the best pools in Los Angeles." Adds Fairey, "Adam and Trina are aesthetes, but they additionally like to absorb and beleaguer themselves with aesthetic movers and shakers. I've had some amazing evenings at the Venits for their amazing banquet parties with some absurd people, including Dustin and Lisa Hoffman, Sylvester Stallone, Russell Brand, Elon Musk. Adam and Trina are both unpretentious, so admitting the categorical architecture and curation, the abode feels balmy and not stuffy." Demi Moore, a acquaintance of Trina's, says: "As I accept watched Trina burrow added into her airy path, I accept apparent her ambience reflect a bolder, added confident, bright and playfully alive dynamic. The throughline for them is and has consistently been about ancestors and admired ones. You feel that affable generosity the moment you airing through the door."
Just don't ask them about the architecture of the pool. It was a headache. "When we bought the house, the basin was tiny and way too baby for the house," remembers Adam. "We were in Bali and were talking about redoing the house, and we saw this zero-edge pool, which has no arresting [the cap for the bend of the pool], and it was beyond on the back. I was like, 'That's absolutely cool.' " Little did they apprehend the bulk of engineering that would be appropriate to actualize it. "You accept to be absolutely level, right?" says Adam. "Because if you're added than an eighth of an inch off, the baptize will lap one way. The accomplished point of aught bend is that it's a conceptual masterpiece. Well, how do you get absurd stability? Eighteen 16-foot pilings into the ground. Our backyard looked like they were putting an on-ramp assimilate the 405." At some point, they begin out that their architect wasn't licensed; the brace again accolade to acquisition a new one. "We were accomplished the point of no return," says Adam. "Great end of the story: It's awesome. And if we accept a massive earthquake, you're activity to appetite to run to our pool."
Across the artery from their abode — the acreage covers 7.5 acreage — the brace additionally created a baby esplanade complete with basketball cloister and playground. Anyone on their artery is acceptable to adore it. "Considering the admeasurement of the houses, how abounding gates there are, we apperceive our neighbors absolutely well. It's aloof like the warmest, kindest, loveliest accumulation of people. We're actual bound here," says Trina, who admits she acquainted agitation about affective to the community. She afraid Beverly Hills would be beneath affable than Encino, breadth they ahead lived. It angry out to be the opposite. "In Encino, we didn't apperceive our neighbors," she says.
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Step Inside Madison Bar Kitchen, Evolving Dining Near The United ... | the madison bar and kitchenBoth say they feel advantageous every day to alive in such a place. "I didn't appear from too much," says Adam. Adds Trina, "I absolutely didn't appear from much." Continues Adam, "I anticipate we both absolutely like our activity and adore it and try absolutely adamantine to accomplish abiding we accumulate affection it because we all apperceive so abounding bodies who are cool acknowledged and aren't absolutely happy. You know, the added you complicate your life, it takes a absolute accomplishment to accept fun. We don't anytime appetite to lose that."
This adventure aboriginal appeared in the Oct. 18 affair of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To accept the magazine, bang actuality to subscribe.
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