Clive Lonstein, Inc.

“I am often told the spaces we design have the richness of movie sets,” says South African–born, New York–based designer Clive Lonstein. The living room of an art-filled Aspen, Colorado, home bears this out, with its Jean Royère–inspired winter-white sofas, mossy green shearling couch (which pops with colorful curls) and monumental blackened-steel I-beam light fixture overhead. Adding more cinematic drama are a 1950s Jacques Adnet floor lamp, sourced on 1stDibs and planted treelike in the corner, and a pair of 1940s stacked-wood table lamps by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, another 1stDibs find. “I drew upon strong geometries, earth tones, texture references to the outdoors and the history of the place to build a contemporary yet rustic mood,” explains Lonstein, who designed the cerused-oak coffee table with wood planks that call to mind the railway ties of westward expansion and a thick glass top that could have been hewn from an ice block found just beyond the windows.