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Raquel Cayre Conjures a Dream

Home in SoHo The design lover behind @ettoresottsass brings her popular Instagram feed to life

TEXT BY HANNAH MARTIN Posted May 3, 2018

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre At Raquel's Dream House on 79 Greene Street, Masanori Umeda's iconic 1981 Tawaraya (ring) sits alongside paintings by Michel Majerus.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre A lamp and cabinet by Gaetano Pesce lead the way to Daniel Buren's Photo-Souvenir: To Align: 5 Pillars, work in situ, May 2017, MDF, paint and self-adhesive black vinyl 8,7 cm wide, indoor, 174.5" x 17.25" x 17.25", each.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre A nonstop sectional sofa snakes through the center of the first floor, surrounded by shelves filled with accessories assembled by Coming Soon New York and Memphis Milano.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Photographs by Cynthia Talmadge feel right at home among Ettore Sottsass's Canada settee designs for Poltronova.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Shiro Kuramata's famously fragile 1976 Glass Chair sits with a googly-eyed painting by Stefan Tcherepnin.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre A selection of rare Sottsass pieces in glass, metal, and mineral.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Wicker-and-plastic Coffee chairs by Fernando and Humberto Campana.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Sottsass's iconic Ultrafragola mirror beckons at the top of a candy-color stairwell Cayre devised in collaboration with Vibes Studios.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Michele De Lucchi's 1983 First Chair sits with contemporary-yet-classical mirrors by Brooklyn-based Bower Studios.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre A fish-shaped cocktail table by Gaetano Pesce is surrounded by paper-pulp Tall Church Boy chairs by rising star Thomas Barger.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre A rare pair of La Smorfia chairs by Gaetano Pesce.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Shelves filled with resin confections by Gaetano Pesce.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Archizoom Associati's unforgettable Safari sofa shares a room with a pair of the firm's palm tree-shaped San Remo floor lamps.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Max Lamb's polystyrene Thermal Spray chairs emerge like stalagmites from the gritty basement.

Photo: Nicole Cohen / Courtesy of Raquel Cayre Studio 65's iconic Bocca sofa sits with a trio of Pietro Derossi's Puffo stools and Piero Gilardi's Massolo bench, all made in Gufram's signature polyurethane foam. T R E N D I N G V I D E O