Gerun Riley and Jason Wilborn's house is a frame for handmade contents

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Adam Popescu
Gerun Riley and her husband, Jason Wilborn, at home. Credit Graham Walzer for The New York Times
CULVER CITY, Calif. — In a city known for a love of all things artisanal, “handcrafted” has become the descriptor du jour for everything from cocktails to ceramics. But it’s a good bet few Angelenos have actually built their own homes with their hands, as did Gerun Riley, 41, the president of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, and her husband Jason Wilborn, 48, a television writer. In their minimal two-story home on a leafy street here, one room flows into the next, and so does the art — an Art Weeks oil painting, a framed Pat York photograph of a young Jane Fonda as Barbarella, a mixed-media work by Brenna Youngblood, a fairytale-esque Erin Stead watercolor and a piece made by one of the couple’s young daughters, who are 6 and 3. [More]