Upon entering the home, the foyer sets the period tone with its Chippendale bench and Venetian console — both from Caché. The first of many rare antique area rugs tops  original white Carrara and Negro marble checkerboard flooring.

A few steps up, the foyer hallway was kept intentionally unfettered. “I wanted to keep the sightline open from the entrance to the open-air space on the opposite side,” Lafia says. From here, arched glass double doors open to reveal the loggia.