The living room features mid-20th-century seating pieces by Charlotte Perriand, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier; the 1960 Cassina cocktail table is an Ico Parisi design. Flanking the fireplace are a pair of paintings by Arnaud de Gramont and a work by Jean-Charles Blais, which hangs above a Philippe Starck–designed console.
Works by Kossmann—portraits he has taken of the same man at five-year intervals—hang in the dining area, which features a 1960s cherrywood and chrome Gordon Russell table designed by Trevor Chinn, a Christian Liaigre sofa, and an eel-skin screen designed by Chahan Minassian.
A work by Mexican painter Xavier de la Garza hangs above a pair of 1970s ceramic table lamps and a console designed by Robert Wilson. The carved wooden trough is from South Africa.
A Murano glass chandelier and a work by Kossmann hang in the entryway.
The tortoiseshell lamp in the combined office/dressing area is from Moss Bureau.
In the master bedroom, a Le Corbusier chaise sits on a Berber rug. The side table is by Christophe Pillet and the photograph is by Pierre Foucroy.
This article appears in the January 2015 issue of NYC&G (New York Cottages & Gardens).