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Top: Trio of skulls, made of bone, from Sloan/Hall. Vintage silver boxes. decorating. She indulged her client — whose collection ranges from a pair of mammoth Napoleonic sphinx sculptures that graced a theater in London before it burned to the ground to 4,000-year-old urns from China — by having an étagère custom-built to display them, with the sphinxes on top and the urns below. "In this building, you can actually remove all the front walls and theoretically have glass installed across every room," she says. "We talked about that, particularly in the bedroom, but it eventually became a question of where would we put the art?" The solution: Keep certain strategically placed walls to display pieces such as the large-scale work by Retna, a graffiti artist from Los Angeles, in the living room and a series of four smoke-ring photographs by Donald Sultan from McClain Gallery that are best viewed from a prime vantage point on the sofa. To give the marble flooring a kick of warmth, Echols installed woven jute underfoot in both the bedroom areas and part of the living room — another nod to consistency of materials. "The jute blended in a way that solid or patterned carpet simply didn't," Echols says. "We went back and forth, afraid it could look like acres of carpet if we weren't careful. We tried leopard and all sorts of patterns, and it went from nice to Vegas really fast." While the owner moves around the globe, his high-rise home — safe and secure, stories up from the street — awaits him, with all the comforts and conveniences of city dwelling just where he left them. MAY | PAGE 40 | 2012 Above left: At the bedside in the master bedroom, Echols styled this tableau atop a round metal garden table from Watkins Culver: a large quartz lamp, orchids from David Brown, several nighttime reads, Hermès travel clock and a contemporary work by Houston artist Shane Tolbert. Above: In the sitting room is a George Cameron Nash sofa surrounded by two drum ottomans by Shabby Slips. French bergère with vintage fabric and fox throw. Wood table from Balinskas Imports. Lighting by Andy Coolquitt. Gold-washed lamp, one of a pair, by Robert Kuo for Baker. Pastoral painting by '20s muralist David Karfunkle. FOLLOWING PAGE: Top left: In the master bedroom, the curtain panels dressing the fourposter iron bed were created by D&D Drapery from Duralee linen/cotton herringbone fabric. Bedding from Kuhl-Linscomb. Three-tiered round bedside table with brushed-nickel from Baker. Top right: In the master bedroom, a zebra-skin-covered bergère sidles up to a zinc-topped antique garden table. Rug by Edward Foster. Bottom: In the master bedroom suite, mohair-covered love seats by Shabby Slips. Photographs by Deanna Templeton entitled Nudes hang on either side of an antique Chinese armoire. The vase at the end of the bed is from Balinskas Imports. Gilt-frame mirror by Frametek, with tortoiseshell in the foreground.