DUETT INTERIORS

For a young Miami couple with a toddler, Tiffany Thompson, the founder of Duett Interiors in Portland, Oregon, took a calculated risk with scale, placing low-slung 1970s European classics in this double-height living room. “It’s an interesting pairing that shouldn’t work but does,” she notes. “It makes the space feel more intimate.” It’s easy to imagine both adults and children climbing into the Mario Bellini Le Bambole lounge chairs that she sourced from 1stDibs — one pair covered in leather, another, with arms, in alpaca — for entertaining and family hangouts. The centerpiece of the room is equally accessible: a curvaceous Wiener Werkstätte biomorphic sofa by Hans Hopfer (who would later design the famous Mah Jong sofa for Roche Bobois), which Thompson describes as a “sculptural element, where the couch transforms from a piece of furniture to true art.” At local 1stDibs seller ShopJustco, the designer found an Art Deco club chair, rustic wooden stools and Make Believe, a six-foot-tall 1990s mixed-media cloverleaf by the Belgian artist César Bailleux. Even when the job was complete, the ever-collaborative Thompson was thrilled when her client, with whom she’s worked on previous projects, saw Anthony James’s Icosahedron, a sculpture composed of steel, glass, mirrors and LEDs, and told her he had to have it. “It’s striking not only because of its scale,” she says, “but also because of the way it illuminates. And the experience changes from sunrise to sunset.”