# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-14T15:41:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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“This is what I do,” mike_gordon deadpans. “I travel around the country and sit in things.” The remark reflects the sense of humor that pervades the musician’s decades-long career and his home. Mike is best known as the bassist for phish, the iconic jam band that’s ruled festival grounds since the 1990s with shows that incorporate in-jokes and elaborate gags for their devoted fans. Considering his packed schedule of touring and recording, it’s hard to believe that he has much time to sit. But Mike is indeed a big sitter. During the design process for this 3,175-square-foot recording studio and living space, Mike was far from the aloof celeb directing a team from a distance. He estimates that he sat on a thousand sofas over two years when looking for one for his studio, spending a few hours a day testing them out between workouts and sound checks—and then there were the bathtubs. “He sat in so many tubs,” brookemichelsendesign, the interior designer for the space, says. “Like, so many tubs.” Sitting in his glass-walled recording studio, Mike says that he “would rather design stuff than write songs,” but he quickly walks that back. “I mean I have to be careful because I am so into aesthetics and space.” With such a packed schedule, design could be a distraction, but it’s been one of his lifelong preoccupations. For our travel issue, Mike invited us into his home, explaining every design decision he made. See the full tour at the link in dwellmagazine’s bio.
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Photo by pet__fish
Story by jackbaldmo
Architecture by birdseye.architecture
Build by birdseye.building
Studio Design & Acoustics by wsdgofficial
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