A primitive Art Deco screen frames an 1894 McKinley armchair in the airy living room. The coffee table in front of the fire is fashioned from a vintage ship’s hold cover.
The stairway was rotated and repositioned to allow light to flood into the house.
In the living room, a canvas by architect and homeowner Ted Porter adds colorful contrast to an early-20th-century sideboard and an F40 Cantilever sofa by Marcel Breuer.
The library features a desk chair from Knoll and an area rug designed by Frank Gehry.
In the dining room, Elsa Peretti candlesticks are massed on a Gubi table from Suite NY.
The ceramic tile in the kitchen is from Artistic Tile and the range is from Thermador.
The bed in a guest room is a Porter family heirloom. The throw is from Cusco, Peru.
The master bedroom features a ceiling fixture from FlosFlos, Anglepoise sconces from YLighting, a Blu Dot coatrack, and a Hudson’s Bay Company blanket.
The cement floor tiles and ceramic wall tiles in the master bathroom are from Nemo Tile & Stone.
The living room’s enormous picture window and a screened porch look onto the backyard, where a sunken pool lies beyond a row of beech trees.
