Where is the real Friends couch?

Where did the couch come from? Not a thrift store or swap meet, despite searching for the perfect boho piece by set decorator Greg Grande, who eventually found it combing through the basement storage area at the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, California.
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Where is the original Friends couch?

And the orange coloured couch has become so iconic that it was put in the Empire State Building. But where did the couch come from? Interestingly, the Orange coloured couch was found not at a thrift store or at swap meat but at the basement storage area at the Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, California.
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Can you visit the real Friends set?

Unfortunately, there is no Friends Studio Tour in LA that will allow you to visit all your favourite Friends sets from the show (i.e. every apartment).
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Where is the orange couch from Friends now?

The six New Yorkers' hangout joint Central Perk is possibly as famous as the friends themselves. The iconic couch at that coffee place is now in the UAE. Yes, you read that right.
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Where is the friends couch in NYC?

FRIENDS NYC

Monica's living room at “The One in New York City”. “The One in New York City” is located at 130 East 23rd Street (the corner of 23rd St and Lexington Ave). The interactive space features 18 nostalgia-packed rooms and activations, including Monica's kitchen and balcony and the iconic Friends fountain.
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Can you visit Friends set in New York?

The FRIENDS Experience in New York is an exhibition about the iconic TV series Friends. The series about the lives of six New York friends has been given its own “experience” in the city, in full called The FRIENDS Experience: The One In New York City, and you can visit it!
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Does the Friends set still exist?

When filming wrapped in 2004, the apartment sets were dismantled and, sadly, no longer exist (though they were re-created for Friends: The Reunion). Stage 24, though, still stands and is now known as The Friends Stage in honor of the sitcom's seminal success.
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Is there a real Central Perk?

While Central Perk exists solely on a Los Angeles soundstage, the space that would house the corner-side café below the building where Monica, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey lived is very much real.
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How much is the Friends couch worth?

Central Perk Couch

The iconic couch where the gang sipped on coffee and gossiped is estimated to sell for $6,000-8,000.
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Can you visit Central Perk Cafe in New York?

Deets: New York City's newest coffee destination, Central Perk located at 130 East 23rd Street (Corner of 23rd St. and Lexington Ave). Visit daily starting at 7am and enjoy coffee drinks, grab & go food items like the delicious Rachel's Oops I Dropped the Cheesecake.
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Is Monica's apartment real?

studio set in Burbank, Calif., so their apartment was fictional, but the exterior shots were filmed at a real building located at 90 Bedford St. in the West Village.
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Where is the Friends Cafe set?

Warner Bros Tour Hollywood created a real-life Central Perk coffee shop where visitors can sit down to enjoy a coffee, located at Stage 48 in Burbank, California. The Central Perk Cafe isn't a replica of the Friends set, but you can still eat a sandwich or pastry in the Friends cafe.
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Who lives in the Friends apartment?

Except for the brief period in Season 4 when she and Rachel swapped apartments with Chandler and Joey, she lives here during all ten seasons; Phoebe is Monica's roommate for some time before the start of the series (as shown in "The One With The Flashback").
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How many couches were used in Friends?

7) Continuing our series A History of Culture in 100 Sofas (and other furniture), culture editor Andrew Nixon explains everything you need to know about the television icon that is the great big orange sofa in the Central Perk coffee shop in Friends.
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How much is the orange couch on Friends worth?

TV's Most Famous Couch From 'Friends' Could Be Yours (For $3,000)
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How much would Monica's apartment cost in real life?

According to CNBC, the cost of Monica's apartment in 2018 would be the very steep price of about $4,500 a month.
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Is Central Perk under Monica's apartment?

The six main protagonists frequently visited Central Perk throughout the series. It is situated in New York City's Greenwich Village, in the same apartment block as Monica's apartment. It was where they spent much of their free time conversing.
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Who owns Central Perk Friends?

A lot of Friends fans are under the impression that Gunther actually owns Central Perk, but that isn't actually the case. While he certainly puts in a lot of hours at the coffee shop, it is actually Terry who owns it, and he does make two appearances in the show.
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What happened to the big white dog from Friends?

At the end of the series, viewers see movers taking the dog statue out of Monica's apartment. She still hasn't come around to the statue, and tells them “if [it] falls off the truck, it wouldn't be the worst thing.” In real life, Pat the dog was moved from the set right back to Aniston's apartment.
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Is the cafe in Friends a real place?

The fictional location of the apartments of Rachel and Monica and Joey and Chandler on the much-loved sitcom is located in the Greenwich area, and exterior shots for the building — which also housed the fictional Central Perk coffee shop on the ground floor — were filmed on location in New York at the corner of Bedford ...
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Was Central Perk ever a bar?

It used to be a bar

In "The One With The Flashback" (Season 3, Episode 6), the audience learned that in 1993, in a maybe real, maybe imagined time before the pilot, Central Perk was actually a bar.
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Why did Terry leave Friends?

Trivia. Terry was originally meant to be the face of Central Perk, regularly interacting with the gang, but Gunther ended up assuming that role. One common interpretation of his disappearance is that he retired, leaving Gunther to run the coffee house in his place.
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How much does it cost to visit Friends set?

Here's what $69 pp gets you: Tour the exterior sets and locations that are used for some of your favorite shows and movies (including Friends locations besides Central Perk) Visit various soundstages for shows still being taped.
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Why does Monica have a messy closet?

A fan theorizes that Monica's messy closet is a reaction to her breakup with Richard. The secret closet didn't become a storyline until later seasons of the series. Friends fans point out that the interior of the secret closet was actually shown during the show's early seasons.
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Did Friends actually film in Vegas?

Unfortunately, the Vegas that the friends visit is a constructed set that no longer exists. In fact, when the actors are perusing the Casino, they're actually walking in the very same place that their Central Perk couch usually sat.
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