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Jake Arnold on becoming Hollywood’s hottest interior designer Andrew Barker
Sitting on the balcony of his first-floor studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Jake Arnold, British interior designer to American stars, is telling me how Californian he has become after almost a decade living in Los Angeles. ‘I have a life coach, a therapist, a trainer and an acupuncturist. I meditate, I take a tonne of supplements. I switch my phone on to flight mode at 8pm and I make sure I sleep eight hours a night. And I am still stressed,’ he laughs.
With his shoulder-length hair in a top knot and wearing a long moss green parka he doesn’t look it. Rather he’s a picture of calm as he glides around his office, a dimly lit room the colour of dried blood (the shade is, in fact, called ‘lighthouse’) with twin marble desks he designed himself. It is here that Arnold conceives California homes for actors such as Dan Levy, Aaron Paul and Rashida Jones, plus sing