Private Air New York Magazine
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www.privateairny.com 68 | Private Air Fall 2026 LUXURY LIVING ceiling already possesses proportion and character, allowing the furnishings below to remain lighter and less declarative. Elsewhere, Peltier embraces surprise. In a butler's pantry visible from both the kitchen and entry, she carries a cut- log wallpaper across the ceiling and treats the compact room as a jewel box. "We chose to treat this small room like a jewel box," she says. "Wallpapering the ceiling adds a playful layer of interest, drawing your eye upward." e effect is immediate. A room one might normally pass through becomes a small discovery. Pattern overhead makes the pantry feel more intimate and more complete, with just enough wit to distinguish it from the larger spaces around it. Michelle Sauer of Cherry Luxury Interiors uses the ceiling to create a room where no walls formally exist. Her clients wanted a place for dinner, games, conversation, and entertaining within an open plan, but they did not want the stiffness of a traditional formal dining room. "Rather than creating a traditional formal dining room, we designed this space to better reflect the way our clients truly live," Sauer explains. "To accomplish this, we designed a custom cloud ceiling detail that creates architectural interest and establishes the room as its own destination." e ceiling establishes a boundary overhead rather than around the furniture. A sculptural Spokes-style fixture sits within it, giving the gathering area a center of gravity. From elsewhere in the open plan, the room reads as distinct without ever feeling enclosed. Jaime Rummerfield's hammam is more immersive. Here, the fifth wall changes the physical experience of the room before one has time to study its materials. A barrel vault curves overhead, lined with Moroccan mosaic tile. Cove lighting follows the arc, catching the irregularities of the surface as steam moves through the room. Taj Mahal stone and aged copper deepen the Moroccan mosaic tile follows the curve of a barrel-vaulted ceiling in Jaime Rummerfield's hammam, where softly integrated cove lighting heightens the sense of enclosure, movement, and intimacy. Photography by Adam Potts.