Delancey Place

Four floors of walnut wainscot, a spiral stair of surprising grace, and a client with more George Ohr pots than shelves to hold them.

We treated the house like a cabinet. Every room answers a collection — the parlor floor for the pottery, the library for first editions, the garden level for the client's collection of Pennsylvania redware. Walls were lime-washed in a single afternoon by a team of four.

The kitchen, tucked into what had been a butler's pantry, is almost monastic. There is room for two to cook, and no more.