How The Up Studio’s modern farmhouse in Old Westbury became the star in the Netflix apocalyptic psycho-thriller
If the world were to end tomorrow because of a cyber-apocalypse, and you happen to be in the modern farmhouse the stars of Netflix’s Leave the World Behind were in, we’d say you’re in pretty good hands.
Dubbed The Open Corner in reference to the L-shaped home’s relationship to the sun's natural path, the 5,200 sq ft residence was designed by architects Adam Wanaselja and John Patrick Winberry from New York-based The Up Studio.
Located on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, the project was completed in 2019 for a couple with two children; no, not Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and their characters’ two adolescent children in the psychological thriller directed by Sam Esmail.
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“Designing a home for a fictitious Hollywood family was never something that was on our ‘design bucket list,’ but I was thrilled to get that initial call from the Netflix location scout who had seen the home online,” recalls Jeffrey Ramirez, Wanaselja and Winberry’s partner and brand designer at The Up Studio.
“Once I read the novel that the film is based on, it became clear to me immediately why the scout had selected this home to be the primary location for the film. The house that [the author] Rumaan Alam had described was eerily similar to the home we had designed a few years prior.”