Incollect Magazine - Issue 10

54 www.incollect.com David Kleinberg: Interiors by David Kleinberg with Mayer Rus Copyright © 2025 David Kleinberg and the Monacelli Press Published by The Monacelli Press, a Phaidon Company Shipping March 12, 2025, and available for pre-order now at Phaidon.com and Amazon A red brick American Georgian townhouse in Manhattan’s Sutton Place neighborhood, designed in the early 1920s for Anne Vanderbilt, is the home of David Kleinberg’s longtime friends fashion designer Thom Browne and Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. A formidable fashion power couple, the pair’s vision for the decoration of the house was somewhat surprising. In a single word, pristine — not historic, not modern or contemporary, but timeless and gracious, with harmony and flow as primary considerations. The living room is outfitted with a pair of gilded 18th-century George III Sheraton-style settees facing across a patinated bronze and glass low table by Swiss artist Diego Giacometti. A 1948 verre églomisé mirror by French master glass artist Robert Pansart hangs above the fireplace. Pansart was active in the 1920s–1950s and is best known for mirrors decorated with geometric shapes, scrolls, and arabesques. He worked with designers Serge Roche, Jean Pascaud, and Gilbert Poillerat, and in the 1950s, he made mirrored furniture for King Farouk. A portrait by John Singer Sargent is propped on the mantel; to the left is A Good Child , 1997, by British artist John Kirby. George Nakashima’s live- edge coffee table is paired with a tailored sofa and a lavishly trimmed and tasseled early 19th-century Regency Klismos chair. Architectural details, notably the lovely ceiling tracery, were added to support the Georgian architecture. Photo: William Abranowicz