A Home In A Landmark Building Gets A Fresh Look

In the foyer, a giclee from Lillian August is set off by an Asian-inspired, dark-stained Peony console by Mariette Himes Gomez for Hickory Chair. A standing 1950s vintage mirror, one of a pair, backs a Raul Grey cowhide bench with a crisscrossed zinc-finished base from Mecox. The sculpture is from the homeowners' travels to Thailand, and the lamp is from RH.

Art glass original to the 1908 building was unmasked and restored--a stunning tour de force at the end of the spacious foyer, where a custom rug from Beauvais featuring staggered stripes complements the 8-inch-wide walnut-plank floor. A pair of chandeliers--Jonathan Browning's Le Petite Pentagone--reflects the ceiling painted in Benjamin Moore's Wind's Breath in a high-gloss finish. The iron-and-woven-leather-strapped bench is from Global Views, and the two oils on canvas above it are called Push and Pull by Meighan Morrison.

Above the living room's existing stone fireplace is a watercolor by Yasu Eguchi, set off by the pale shade of Benjamin Moore's Blue Lace on the walls. The Piedmont sofas in polished walnut--covered in chenille, linen and cotton from Kravet--and the cerused-oak chairs--clad in cotton-velvet by Glant--are from Profiles. The Carrara marble table by Timothy Oulton sits on recessed casters.

A circa-1960 Baldwin grand piano is positioned in the living room in front of a shallow built-in painted cabinet used for storage. On top of the cabinet is a grouping of vintage handcrafted bisque pottery; the rough textured bowl on the piano is a German piece from the 1960s.

In the dining room, a wall-to-wall bookcase in cerused oak features open shelving for dinnerware and family heirlooms as well as hideaway shelves behind doors with antiqued mirror panels. Above the cabinet, which is a nod to older French bookcases and china cabinets, three picture lights provide downlight that illuminates beautifully at night.

The dining room's black-walnut Trousdale dining table from Profiles is teamed with four side chairs from the homeowners' collection and a pair of Bowmont host chairs from the Barbara Barry Realized by Henredon collection, all upholstered in Rubelli Venezia's Vello D'Oro chenille. The low-pile geometric rug is from Beauvais, and the modern-look Barcelona polished-nickel chandelier by Fuse Lighting is from Dennis Miller Associates.

A vintage Chinese watercolor folding screen was the starting point for the design of the husband's office. A built-in desk extends to the wall in front of the window and is joined by a Saarinen chair. The built-in sofa features a pair of twin mattresses; its cushions are upholstered in an aubergine mohair-silk from Knoll.

Built-in bookcases wrap around a nailhead-trimmed sleeper sofa from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams in the study, where the Asian-influenced 1960s Danish chairs are perfect in scale--broad but not deep for the small room. The mosaic oval petrified-wood table with polished-nickel base is from Palecek, and the zigzag-patterned Mina Moroccan rug is from the Ben Soleimani collection at RH.

A subtly patterned wallcovering, Artisan Stripe from Lee Jofa, creates a soothing backdrop in the master bedroom, where the biscuit-tufted Soho bed from Duralee is clad in a chevron print, Jerome from the Cowtan & Tout's Valentina collection. The geometric complements the custom wool rug, whose Chinese blossoms scatter shades of blue and green. The Remy armoire, upholstered in gray felt, is from Hickory Chair.