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In a Carrère Hastings–designed building in Manhattan's Upper East Side, Sandra Nunnerley combined two apartments, creating a new 2,000-square-foot home for herself.

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The living room. Above the sofa is Richard Serra's My Curves Are Not Mad , 1987.

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At the center of the room, the designer placed a circa 1945 Jansen dining table with Jean-Michel Frank–style cane-back chairs. The lighting includes a 1940s Jean Royère chandelier and, sitting atop the 1970s Italian acrylic console, a 1930s Murano glass table lamp.

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Twelve-foot ceilings and bleached-oak floors give the living room an increased sense of spaciousness. A Billy Baldwin–style slipper chair is positioned for enjoying the fireplace. Kenneth Noland's 1966 Diamond hangs at right. Louis XVI armchair, Bernd Goeckler.

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The bedroom is also characterized by an eclectic mix of pieces. The Laverne acrylic chair is from 1957. Above the Biedermeier chest, from Karl Kemp Antiques, is a circa 1790 giltwood mirror. Swing-arm lamps, John Boone. Scalamandré headboard and bed skirt fabric.

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French doors in the study open to a balcony, where Nunnerley has boxwoods kept in charcoal containers. On the wall facing a pair of T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings slipper chairs is Kelly McLane's 2003 oil Bad Day for Meth Lab #3 and #4 . Sofa and drapery linens, Rogers Goffigon.