A unique family home in Manhattan, New York, designed by local interior design studio Steven Volpe. Steven Volpe has designed a dazzling family home high above the gritty streets of Manhattan that rivals the most luxurious homes of the past.

Once the complex issue of the superstructure was resolved, Volpe and his design director, Ralph Dennis, focused on the development of a modern language of luxury, one that nods to historical archetypes without capitulating to antiquated models. Their flooring solution, for example, utilizes 20-by-40-inch slabs of oak and limestone, laid in a herringbone pattern, to conjure a contemporary reinterpretation of classic parquet de Versailles. “The stone floors of the entry hall feather into the wood floors of the living room with no hard stops, blurring the boundaries between the rooms,” Volpe says of the treatment.

The capacious living room, measuring 60 feet long, perhaps best exemplifies the level of detail and sophistication of the entire home.A 1970s Jules Wabbes center table, surmounted by a rare Gio Ponti chandelier, bisects the space, creating two distinct seating areas that temper the room’s enormous scale.New oak-and-bronze surrounds frame the windows and window seats, adding another layer of refinement along the periphery of the space.

In the primary bedroom, walls of stitched, pale-gray lambskin panels, set within a walnut framework, represent a modern take on the parchment-covered rooms of French designer Paul Dupré-Lafon. Like so many details in the apartment, the wall treatment appears quite effortless and straightforward, despite the complexities of its construction.Children’s bunk beds that look like something out of the grandest ocean liners or railcars of yesteryear; a hallway paneled in ribbed wood lacquered in a shade of Byzantine blue; and on and on. No single detail was too obscure, and no room too secondary, for the highest levels of imagination and craftsmanship.