Jenny Armit, Interior Designer

“Elizabeth Paige Smith is the first American I’ve signed to my gallery,” says Jenny Armit, who opened her eponymous Melrose Avenue gallery last year. So it’s not surprising that Smith’s designs can be found in Armit’s home as well. Armit commissioned a dining room table from the California-based designer: a 6-foot-square wood table covered in a buttery yellow resin. “It’s one of those things you want to touch. The resin gives it a slight deadening in terms of sound when glasses are set down,” especially important, Armit says, given the hardwood floors and concrete walls in her square dining room. She is also a fan of Danny Lane, an American who works in London. Her collection includes one of his glass and steel chairs and an immense glass bowl that once held ostrich eggs. “Because of feng shui, I need to have an earth element in there.”