ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

universal candor

Starting with designer Jiun Ho who hails from Malaysia, and the bio-tech executive homeowners, one African-American, his partner German; to such artworks as a larger-than-life sculpture from Cameroon and paintings from Russian conceptualists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid; to furnishings that include a Kashan carpet from Persia to a Louis XV desk, it’s clear this house would be hard to beat in the “universal” category.

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