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A Grand Tour of the Michael S. Smith-Designed Manhattan Duplex

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In the east gallery, antiques mix with contemporary and modern artworks by Helen Frankenthaler (on back wall), Agnes Martin (at right), and Henri Matisse (on console).

A Picasso painting hangs above a custom armless sofa in a Fortuny cotton.

Stenciled rattan panels cover the family-room walls. George III leather-topped game table; chairs in an Emil Rotter fabric.

A large Franz Kline painting centers the light-filled living room. Antique chandelier; Alexander Calder sculpture on Russian neoclassical table; 19th-century Savonnerie rug.

Another view of the living room.

Bronze Claude Lalanne candelabra adorn the dining table. Chinese export padauk wood chairs wear a Holland & Sherry fabric; paintings by Peter Lanyon (left) and Frank Stella.

In the kitchen, cube lights by Jean Perzel hang from the pewter leaf–covered ceiling.

A garden-scene wallpaper by Zuber wraps the master bedroom, where the custom-patinated bronze bed by Carole Gratale wears D. Porthault linens. Paintings by Jean Arp (left) and Georges Vantongerloo.

The wife’s dressing room features a Paul Frankl daybed.

In the sunroom, a custom plaster lantern by Philippe Anthonioz hangs over a dining table by Hervé Van der Straeten and midcentury chairs. Brice Marden painting.

Indian miniatures decorate the husband’s dressing room; paneling designed by Ferguson & Shamamian .