Upper East Side Pied-a-Terre

In the midst of a relocation, real-estate broker to the stars, Jared Seligman sought refuge on New York’s Upper East Side... "Rather than dumping all of his 18th-century paintings and stuffed fauna into his temporary pad, Seligman saw the transitory arrangement as an opportunity to cleanse his design palate. “I wanted to clear my head and think about what I liked and what I didn’t like,” says Seligman, who confesses that the prewar unit’s spacious bath and views of Central Park made the move all the more appealing. To execute his vision, he called on New York designer Patrick McGrath, the former head of visuals at Giorgio Armani, to help him create a blank slate—albeit a well-appointed one.