Inside Benny Blanco’s Eclectic LA Home, Which Doubles as Hollywood’s Favorite Hangout

In a number of episodes of the FXX comedy Dave, pop hitmaker Benny Blanco welcomes the titular rapper Dave Burd (a.ok.a. Lil Dicky) into his cavernous Los Angeles mansion and the 2 spend some high quality time speaking store and goofing off in its expanse. It’s depicted as a glassy trendy property—becoming for a profitable tremendous producer like Blanco, who performs a model of himself within the present—however the down-to-earth music maven’s IRL Casa Blanco is a hotter, brighter abode than its TV stand-in.

Blanco selected the 1939-built LA dwelling primarily for its handy location close to his studio, the place he routinely writes and produces well-liked tunes, like “Particular” from SZA’s Grammy-winning album SOS and “Single Quickly,” a dance-pop observe by multihyphenate celebrity (and Blanco’s girlfriend) Selena Gomez. Regardless of its proximity to his work, he wished the home to signify a peaceable retreat from the every day grind. “I want separation,” Blanco tells AD by way of Zoom whereas posted up in his bed room. “In any other case, I am waking up at 3 a.m. and going to the opposite room to make a music.”

He snapped up the pad in 2019 and made himself at residence little by little, with the assistance of Rachel Leigh Ward and Dana M. Vitrano of BonVivant Interiors and designer Keefe Butler of Studio BAD, who describes his involvement in the home’s reimagining as extra of a supporting position to Blanco’s inventive lead. The ensuing house definitely seems to be just like the fruit of Blanco’s all-play, no-work design temporary, with an alfresco eating paradise out again; a dreamy, Mariah Carey–worthy dressing room (as Blanco quips, “Don’t all of us need to be Mariah?”); and a guesthouse-turned-movie theater, outfitted with crimson velvet-tufted partitions and the sweet bar of Blanco’s childhood fantasies—a giant hit with pals’ little ones. “All the children name it ‘the sweet room,’” he says. “They run out with sweet bursting from their pockets, and so they’re screaming [because] they’ve eaten a lot sugar. Their dad and mom in all probability hate me.”

Butler explains that Outdated Hollywood and Paris’ Odéon theater had been among the many references he used for the house cinema. Blanco nods to related themes in numerous phrases, envisioning the theater as “a Parisian brothel,” aesthetically talking. It’s an undeniably luxurious room, although Butler, who has labored with Blanco on a number of initiatives over time, notes that “luxurious not for the sake of luxurious, however for the sake of hospitality” is the musician’s modus operandi. “He’s so a lot the host,” the designer says.