Josh Greene featuring the Mozart chair

An apartment on the Upper East Side of New York City.

I do have a lot of fresh flowers at the moment and I want to do some plants in my kitchen. It gets great light.

I needed a bedroom chair. Typically in a bedroom you'll have a chair in the corner, and when you have a chair in the corner, I think they always look better with a curve. If that was a big rectangle or square chair, it would look crazy. I was like, I only need one and it needs to sit in this corner. I really liked the strong curve.

Billy Baldwin, Billy Haines and Tony Duquette. I think Karl Springer was really brilliant. '70s Maitland Smith. Why? I think it was the proportions. Michael Taylor was also product and interiors. I was really formed by '80s California because I was a kid then. Those things worked in that environment, they make sense to me. And more recently I’ve been paying attention to the Italians - Ico Parisi, Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti. But I like it all. Here in my apartment I have contemporary pieces, that's from 1980, these chairs are probably the 1960s. But we're in a kind of traditional environment. I like having a mix of things, that's where I am at these days.

Yes, things my parents have given me or that I’ve sort of brought home over the years from their house. There’s a pair of Ansel Adams photographs my dad bought when he was a young man, and the Louis XV chair in my entry was from my house growing up.

Certainly Paris. Because the amount of beauty that you see everywhere you walk is so captivating and it honestly makes me relax. I had gone with my mom in high school but fairly shortly after I studied abroad there. That was the first time I really left home and went into another culture. It was so immersive and I sucked it up like a sponge.

Los Angeles is constantly an inspiration. I love all the nature in such a cosmopolitan, dense city. The indoor-outdoor living. Residentially it is a very good, inspirational architectural city with so many different styles from Wallace Neff Spanish Colonial to Richard Neutra to Frank Lloyd Wright.

And then Palm Springs is really important. I've been going there my whole life and it is a very special place. My parents live in Palm Springs, I plan to spend more time there, and I hope to do more work there. So I'm putting that out in the world.

I've never been but I’m going at the end of this month. My friend – who is not Irish, he’s from Arizona - but studied abroad at Trinity College and he wanted to go back. He rented a beautiful house 45 minutes outside of Dublin, and told friends to come. I literally bought my ticket yesterday.

“Good things take time, like a well curated home."

It really takes a while to find and collect things. A home is always better ten years later, like an older tree.

I spend a lot of time obviously focused on my projects. All the hours of looking for the right light fixtures or looking for the right bench for the foot of someone's bed or looking for the right patterned fabric for someone's room. I'm super involved in all the details.

Actually, nothing.

I think it gives it a little bit of soul. A little bit of imperfection. A little bit of character. You can't everything just be perfect and new and sterile. You have to have a mix. Also, and I think people forget this, all these buildings going up around us are not machine made, they are made by hand. This apartment is made by hand, the floor was made and laid by hand, the molding and even all the electrical wiring. All done by hand.

I’m not sure about the first thing, but I do remember decorating my room. It was an addition from the original part of our house, which was designed by John Byers, a noted architect in L.A. My walls were 12” wide boards that went floor to ceiling. I painted them white, then splatter painted over that in red and green and then spray painted my name in yellow over the whole thing. It was so '80s and super crazy. And yet my mom wasn't like "maybe you should go into design." She was like, "you need to be a doctor. Or a lawyer."

What I didn't realize until I got it was that the depth is right, so you get a little hug when you sit. Also it is tight upholstery so it always looks nice and tidy, but is soft enough that it is very comfortable to sit in. I sit here to put on my shoes every day. It is really nice.

Definitely a little flirtatious. Like, "hi, please pay attention to me, I'm over here, I've got curves and I'm going to hug you when you sit with me."

Maybe I’d give it a more gender fluid flirtatious name, like Charlie.

A wood burning fireplace, including mantel. Because it is so substantial and sturdy. Its quiet power. It provides warmth. It comes in many different styles. And is always going to be there, doing its job.