“The furniture I acquired for the gallery is elegant and the pieces were made to look sumptuous with their velvet upholstery,” says Alan Koppel. “But they’re out of the ordinary because their shapes are quite innovative.” The burnt-orange velvet chairs were originally made for the Al Bahar, an exclusive hotel in the Lebanese mountains whose interiors were designed by Royère and where Lebanon’s high society played bridge.

Koppel also came by a Royère club chair and ottoman as well as some other upholstered pieces from the house of an important textile dealer, and he is showing the furniture, which he has had reupholstered in a velvet that is almost identical to the original, with the contemporary art he is known for selling. The club chair and ottoman are in an ensemble with a Peter Halley painting in acrylic called Super Size (above left). The orange chairs are set in front of a 1960 collage by the French artist Jacques Villeglé (below left).