A Look Inside the Kips Bay Show House

The Kips Bay Decorator Show House, the Manhattan spring rite at which designers prove their mettle with pelmets, marquetry and French Art Deco, among other special effects, opened to the public on May 14 at the Arthur Sachs Mansion, 58 East 66th Street. Proceeds benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, which turned 100 this year. Thom Filicia, the decorator turned media star and brand, imagined his room as an elegant semi-public office and library, pointedly eschewing bookshelves. “Why have something you’re not going to utilize?” he said. The teak sculpture by Robert Greene is called “Frenetic Composure.”