Home Design with Kevin Sharkey

1 Axel Vervoordt's home in Belgium features a Eighteenth-century Louis XV fauteuils in the entry. The walls are painted with a fresco technique that incorporates pigments from the local soil. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

2 At Asli Tunca's home in Istanbul, a sandstone sculpture of a griffin and a Byzantine-inspired cabinet are on the landing. Atop the cabinet is a sixteenth-century saint's head from Goa, India. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

3 In Tunca's sitting room, seventeenth-century German trumeaux hang over a Louis XVI settee. The cast-iron coffee table with aged mirror top is from the Asli Tunca line. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

4 Artworks in Vervoodt's study include a portrait of a lady attributed to Peter Lely and a Roman School painting circa 1680, Porta de Cesare. The mahogany partners' desk is Eighteenth-century English. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

5 A 1957 painting by Victor Vasarely is hung in the hallway of Vervoordt's home. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

6 In Vervoordt's "Oriental Room," a Chinese Lohan sculpture in polychromed wood is from the Yuan Dynasty of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

7 The kitchen in Robert Wilson and David Serrano's Los Angeles home features a Sergio Asti fiberglass light fixture from the 1960s above Paul Evan's burl Parsons table and chairs by Rene Herbst. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

8 A Seguso Murano lamp from 1949 and a collection of Chinese foo dogs and vases sits on a lacquered Paul Frankl cabinet from 1948 in Wilson and Serrano's bedroom. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

9 Nineteenth-century ancestral Chinese paintings on paper are hung on walls upholstered in vintage jacquard. The Knole sofa and Venetian side table are both nineteenth-century . The porcelain lamp is 1950s Italian. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

10 A painting by Jonathan Meese hangs over a sofa of Ingrao's design graces a room in Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper's New York home. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

11 A chandelier and a set of floor lamps, all Barovier Venetian glass from 1949, surround sofas designed by Fremontier.(Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

12 The Fremontier's dining area has a table and mirror incorporating eighteenth-century Spanish tiles, designed by the homeowner. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

13 Daniel Suduca and Thierry Merillou's home in Toulouse, France features a wood-and-marble sink they designed themselves. The stool is by Fernando and Humberto Capana. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

14 Carlos Aparicio in New York chose a 1910s adjustable light fixture in hammered brass, glass, and fabric designed by Carl Westman. The rug is by Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

15 Jean-Michel Frank designed the parchment-covered desk; the pair of oak armchairs with silk upholstery, the glass, wood, and bronze desk lamp, and the bronze Tete du Femme floor lamp, a collaboration with Alberto Giacometti. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

16 A Maison Jansen 1940s silk velvet armchair faces a Cuban mahogany sofa with original wool upholstery by Kaare Klint in Aparicio's living room. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

17 A sitting area has an armchair and sofa by Kaare Klint. The iron table and lamp, in the Tour Eiffel pattern, are by Jean Royere. The wool rug is 1940s Swedish. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

18 Mady Joudan's Paris home has gilt wood carvings from eighteenth-century France which decorate a custom lacquered-and-leather desk. The Lucite chair is by Chahan Minassian. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

19 The home of Richard Shapiro in Los Angeles boasts many interesting works of art. Allan McCollum's installation, "The Surrogates" consists of 192 individual pieces. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)

20 A norther Italian kitchen table is surrounded by nineteenth-century Italian "stump" chairs in Richard Shapiro's home. (Dealer's Choice, Architecture/Interiors Press, Inc.)