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The kitchen features Japanese ash casework and Jacques Biny lights, made in 1956. A Semi pendant by Gubi hangs above a De La Espada table.

A green marble island effortlessly takes center stage in the kitchen.

A Japanese soaking tub is positioned beneath a window to appreciate the site.

In the main bath, a wall of Heath Ceramics tile joins a terrazzo floor from Ann Sacks.

Jagoda installed two Velux skylights in the kitchen and one apiece in the kids’ bathroom and the parents’. “Ideally, every room in the house has enough natural light that you don’t have to turn on the lights during the day,” says the architect. The frost bathroom tile is from Heath Ceramics, while the faucet is from Vola

“The bedroom is linked to an open-plan bathroom, separated by a massive textured wall that slides to one side,” says the listing agent.

Pale-green tiles in the en suite bath match the curtains separating the bedroom from the study.

“The baths feature impeccably maintained original tiles that fit completely with today’s modern style,” says the listing agent.

Decorated in white tile reminiscent of the Zanotta grid, the primary suite bathroom radiates sleek modernist functionality.

A large soaking tub in the guest suite bath is lit by a picturesque floor-to-ceiling window along the tubs edge.

Mandarin Stone tiles and C.P. Hart fixtures feature in the upstairs bathroom.

Mutina ceramic tiles line the bathroom.

Powder room

The primary bathroom continues the white oak casework from elsewhere in the home, with walls in the same white Dekton material as the kitchen counters. The dual sinks are separated from the wet chamber by a swinging glass door.

The square tiles of the shower walls mimic the squares of the glass-block wall that delineates the bathroom.

After: "We don't believe in the hierarchy of materials,

Architect Philippe Baumann’s New York home has an upstairs shower with a perforated, galvanized-steel platforms, and an operable skylight above that brings out the best in the aqua green tiles.