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YOU’D BE FORGIVEN for assuming the inhabitants of this New York pied-à-terre are devout traditionalists. The rental apartment, encompassing the top two floors of a 19th-century townhouse, features painstakingly restored period details: tin ceilings, plaster medallions, even a prim plate ledge lined with grandmotherly floral-print china. And consider the décor, a studied assemblage of Oriental carpets, densely patterned wallpaper, and velvet seating that seems plucked from the Victorian era.
You’d be wrong. As it turns…