Creative Guru’s Loft, Where Design Rules Are Meant to Be Broken

“One of my favorite spaces in the world doesn’t look like my place at all,” says Anthony Sperduti, the cofounder and creative director of Partners & Spade. “But the first time I went to Peggy Guggenheim’s house in Venice, it was the embodiment of how—in the middle of the city, the lagoon—Peggy created her slice of the world. The environment she made is more than a physical space: It’s a feeling.” In particular, says Sperduti, he was most struck by Guggenheim’s compelling mix of modernist, classicist, Venetian, traditional, and avant-garde styles, all working together so seamlessly. “An iconoclast who didn’t want to live by the rules.”