Cara Greenberg

What began in the 1940s as a modest house in a woodsy Southampton enclave had seen more than a few re-vamps by the time Jessica Schuster’s longtime clients bought it, including a significant expansion by the immediately previous owners. The place looked dreamily pastoral from the outside, with white stucco cladding, multipaned windows and a fairy-tale tower enclosing the main stair.

Jeffrey Graetsch and Debbie August, partners in the Soho gallery Raisonné, share a mad passion for design. Their Crosby Street space showcases uncommon, meticulously researched and documented pieces by 20th- and 21st-century masters, with an emphasis on mid-century French and radical Italian material. Hallowed names like Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Pierre Paulin and Ettore Sottsass are represented.

Kimille Taylor, who has a home nearby, recently completed the redesign of a mountain ski house in Telluride, Colorado (portrait by Marsha Lebedev Bernstein). Top: In the living room, she arranged a contemporary sofa, a vintageHans Wegner Web chair, armchairs by Lawson-Fenning and Hinterland Design side tables around a 1960s Roger Capron coffee table.