Entryway Design as Art: How Hung Liu, Kusama, and Emily Young Shape First Impressions in Luxury Homes

Key facts

• Ten Plus Three founder Gonzalo Bueno designed an Austin, Texas, entryway for author Lorena Junco Margain around a metallic Yayoi Kusama pumpkin placed beneath a skylight.
• Bueno and Margain once owned a gallery together in Monterrey, Mexico; Margain's collection includes works by Yayoi Kusama, George Condo, and Vik Muniz.
• Architect Gil Schafer and interior designer Rita Konig created a Southampton, New York, cottage entry with Federal-style moldings, wainscoting, pineapple-leaf lanterns, and hula dancer wallpaper.
• Landscape architect Edmund Hollander designed grounds around a 150-year-old copper beech tree for the Southampton home.
• Suzanne Tucker centered a Bel Air, California, entryway on a blazing-red Hung Liu painting, adding rock crystal lamps, a black olive tree, and a turquoise antique rug.
• Smith and Moore Architects and Caroline Rafferty designed a West Palm Beach, Florida, home whose skylighted atrium features a plaster stair and sculptures by Emily Young and Olga Sobko.
• A ceramic wall piece by Brie Ruais crowns the West Palm Beach stair; the home also holds works by Yves Klein, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Mohamed Melehi.
• Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.'s The Decoration of Houses is referenced for its guidance that entryways establish a home's tenor through graceful proportions.