"I like to have dinner parties and can fit up to 14 people around the table. For cocktail parties I had a black plexiglass top cut to fit the shape of the tabletop and I put up a net and use it as a ping-pong table! It is quite popular, a great way for people to meet each other. You can see my problem with pairs again. The chandeliers I bought in Palm Beach and the antique Chinese paper panels I bought on Broome Street. The credenza is from Bo Concepts and very reasonably priced. The chairs are Warren MacArthur, not very smart in a dining room but I had to have it. The dining table itself came from an antique store in Maine. I bought it and I had it re-finished by genius furniture craftsman Christophe Pourny. He can take any stick of furniture and make it look like a priceless antique.">

Photographed by Amelia Alpaugh