It sits on a 19th-century Agra carpet in the entrance hall, which also accommodates pieces as diverse as a Serge Mouille chandelier, a Spanish Colonial bench, and a Jeff Koons puppy vase (it holds the Ping-Pong balls). Not your regulation folding Masonite number, but a steel-and-glass version-one of ten executed by Argentine artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2008. When it came to the 9,500-square-foot main house and its two guest cottages, DeGeneres wanted to make the rooms “a little less uniform and formal.” So it is that the very first thing one notices upon entering the house is a Ping-Pong table. In this case changing her environment also entailed purchasing two neighboring properties, replacing one with a pond and several dozen carob, pear, and oak trees. Like, the living room has probably been through five or six incarnations since.
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