For this duplex maisonette in Manhattan, Peter Pennoyer conceived the residence’s guest bedroom as an homage to the family’s Asian roots, deploying exclusively Chinese furniture in the space and lacquering the ceiling a bright red. Photo by by Eric Piasecki/OTTO
Peter Dunham updated this pool house and screening room, which once belonged to Merv Griffin. “The first piece we purchased was the huge 18th-century Chinese screen that retracts to reveal the projector,” Dunham says. “It fit to within an inch and set the look of the room, which we treillaged and then layered for a California take on English garden rooms.” Photo by Karyn R. Millet
Left: In this London home, Douglas Mackie hung a 19th-century silk Indonesian ceremonial shawl called a lawon in the dining room, whose furnishings are otherwise of his own design. Right: In the entrance to the library, an 18th-century English table and chairs from Jamb sit in front of a Japanese screen of the same period. Photos by Gary Hamill
For this Manhattan loft, Amy Lau Design collaborated with master artisans and accomplished artists to create a synthesis of modern American design with a sensibility toward materials more commonly associated with an Asian tradition of craft. Photo by Hulya Kolabas
In the master bedroom of a Pacific Palisades, California, home by Studio William Hefner, custom wall panels are covered in Rose Tarlow fabric. A pair of mid-18th-century Chinese trunks topped with vintage steel lamps flank the bed, and an Edward Wormley bench sits at its foot. Photo by Roger Davies
This vignette displays designer Michelle Nussbaumer’s ability to create richly layered, highly tactile, globally inspired decor that spans space and time but never feels overdone. Photo by Melanie Acevedo
In the Seattle home of Tim Pfeiffer, cofounder of architecture firm Hoedemaker Pfeiffer, a custom sofa in the den is paired with a vintage Chinese coffee table. Photo by Andrew Giammarco
A vintage isho dansu, a Japanese clothing chest, features prominently in the design of Pfeiffer’s guest room, which also includes a Turkish rug and a rustic Chinese yumu-wood stool topped with a vintage Martz table lamp. Photo by Andrew Giammarco