7 East 96th Street

"The Decoration of Houses is like the King James Version of the Bible.

 

Today we all know, to a degree, that pleasingly proportioned rooms inspire, almost magically, a sense of calm.

 

That we should build and decorate houses based on our individual needs rather than popular trends. (Not for nothing was Wharton born a Jones, a New York society family whose indulgences, architectural and otherwise, reportedly led to the coining of the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses.”)"

 

Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 2013