Inside Robin Williams's 1980s Pad, As Featured In <em>Apartment Life</em> Magazine
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"We jumped at the chance to design for our favorite spaceman."
They describe the apartment as "deco-techo"
"Robin's nest, despite his comic book image, had to be more sophisticated to suit the off-camera person."
The kitchen and dining space.
"That's a fish pillow with three heads, lifted from Robin's Shakespearian improv routine about the probable result of fallout from Three Mile Island. Easy to make: simply Siamese-triplet three fish pillow kits together at the seams."
(L) "Robin's living room got mysteriously shorter, by about four feet, to accommodate the Amazing Magic Closet, containing a revolving clothes rack just like the one at your corner cleaner's. All of Robin's characters' clothes are in the closet: Rev. Earnest Angley, Little Andrew, Nicky Lenin, Grandpa Funk." (R) "We turned a small hall into the Williams archives."
"Robin wanted a plush palace for his nightly 3 a.m. splash-down, a combination nighttime crash-pad and early-morning launching pad. Solution: A room that's all bed."
"Robin Williams is a super-star by name only. He's not the type to move into the former Gloria Swanson-Irving Thalberg-Errol Flynn mansion and give lavish come-as-you-aren't parties. 'My desire for material things is almost nonexistent,' he says."
The bed's headboard was inspired by Baskin Robbins.