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She Lost a View But Gained a Gallery

Great Rooms A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. In the Living Room: Han Feng in her loft under her portrait painted in 2016 by Francesco Clemente. “We met when he was having a show in Shanghai, and I cooked for him at my apartment,” she says. She’s since cooked for him and his wife, Alba, in New York, and the three remain friends. Photo: Seth Caplan I first visited Han Feng’s Flower District loft for one of her spectacular multicourse dinner parties, where she would always have a mix of fashion, theater, and art people from her circle. Back then, it was drenched...

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From Townhouse to Bauhaus

Great Rooms A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The Entry: The door is painted Yves Klein blue. On its left hang antique Venetian mirrors. Photo: Annie Schlechter/B) Annie Schlechter 2021 I never imagined I would be in a postwar building,” Alexandra Pappas says. Indeed, for 18 years she rented an apartment across the hall from me in the five-story 1854 West Village brownstone where I live still; she threw wonderful parties. “I remember walking into that building on 9th Street and thinking, Oh my God, I found the place of my dreams,” she says. “I loved it there...

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Meet Ramtin Ray Nosrati, the Builder Behind Many of L.A.’s Megamansions

Photo: Damon Casarez I always say, ‘The first thing you want to hear from the buyer when he opens the door is ‘Wow,?’ ” said the luxury-housing developer Ramtin Ray Nosrati as he stood at the front door of one of his latest projects: a nearly completed 12,000-square-foot six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. He gestured across the living room to the retractable glass wall and the balcony, which opens onto the emerald expanse of the Pacific Ocean. “If you hear that word, wow, you know you got them.” A key part of Nosrati’s...

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