“Our client calls it the séance room,” designer Pamela Shamshiri says of the dark, thickly lacquered living room of a brownstone in New York’s West Village. The L.A. powerhouse combined illuminated zodiac etchings on antique mirrored panels in the millwork, a crystal ball on the coffee table and “all kinds of layered, mysterious elements that,” she notes, “you have to bask in the room for a significant period of time to truly absorb.” Shamshiri turned to 1stDibs for finds to match the mystery, including a Gênet et Michon glass flower chandelier and a 1940s Swedish Böhlmarks floor lamp, complementing them with a Carlo Bugatti Throne chair, an Osvaldo Borsani leather and velvet sofa, Jindřich Halabala tabouret ottomans and a Hans Wegner Safari chair. Her muses for the moody decor read like a who’s who and what’s what of avant-garde royalty: Marc du Plantier’s apartment on Boulevard Suchet in Paris, the Villa Borsani library, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé’s Paris apartment, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonor Fini, Sonia Delaunay and Jean Cocteau. It’s a room that dares us to ask, Are the greatest spirits of design in here with us? The answer is a resounding yes.