When prominent physicians Neeta and Alfred moved from a New York apartment—where they’d raised two children—to a new, two-story house in Rockleigh, New Jersey, they wanted to transform its blank canvas into a sophisticated home where they could start collecting.

The couple sought out New York–based interior design Alyssa Kapito, whose eponymous firm is known for sumptuous textures in neutral palettes, to conceive spaces featuring her signature variations in tone. New York designer Alyssa Kapito uses material over pattern to create balance and interest in this New Jersey family home.

Kapito created cohesion by mixing new furnishings and artworks with antiques with period-bridging modern lines, placing pieces by the same designer in different rooms. She says the owners’ enthusiasm for the process and the synergy she developed with them drove the project from the outset.