"For me to have stayed here so long is blasphemous for a New Yorker. We immigrated to Brooklyn when I was 8. I wanted to have some sense of my previous home around me."
"This is where a lot of my creativity comes from. I sit on this couch and play songs and come up with ideas for the show. I've choreographed many sequences on this floor. The mission statement for the place was to have an art gallery with a couch and bed in it."
"This location reminds me of New York. I open the window, and it sounds like a New York intersection. I need the sirens to fall asleep."
Val Chmerkovskiy, a "Dancing With the Stars" professional dancer, purchased a two-bedroom West Hollywood condo and collaborated with designer Nicole Volynets to create a space reflecting his New York heritage. Despite living in Los Angeles for six years, the Ukrainian-born dancer who immigrated to Brooklyn at age eight wanted to preserve his connection to his former home. The living space features black and white New York photography, a faux brick wall, and an open-plan design reminiscent of a Manhattan loft, anchored by a large sea-blue L-shaped couch. Chmerkovskiy uses this creative space for choreographing dance sequences for his television work. The design incorporates historical photographs of Eastern European immigration to the Lower East Side and iconic New York imagery.
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