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" Keith Johnson and Glen Senk&amp;#039;s apartment is in one of those classic old New York City buildings on a well-maintained Upper East Side street right off Central Park. The doorman wears a smart gray uniform and uses a traditional switchboard to announce guests, the wood-paneled elevator has a little leather seat, and the halls are decorated with furniture and urns. It could be the set of a Brooke Astor biopic.  But all expectations of stuffy uptown etiquette disappear when Johnson, the head antiques buyer for the immensely successful Anthropologie, and Senk, the CEO of Urban Outfitters, its parent company, open the door, smiling warmly. They are joined by Piper and Skibo, the couple&amp;#039;s boisterous Pembroke Welsh corgis, who bark a lot and jump around like two living feather dusters. Walk through the entrance hall and you are also greeted by a near-life-size photograph of a happy white-haired woman in a flower-bedecked black frock. The picture is part of a series portraying the photographer&amp;#039;s mother, a 92-year-old dressmaker. &amp;quot;She captured her mother in each of her creations,&amp;quot; Johnson explains. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s here to welcome visitors.&amp;quot;    The place is full of such stories. Point to almost any worn-in antique, curious artifact, or provocative artwork, and there&amp;#039;s a tale to tell. A rusty old French coiled radiator displayed in the foyer like sculpture, for instance, was recovered from an apartment house in Nice that was under demolition, making one reconsider the inherent beauty of heating appliances. Found objects such as this mix with more notable pieces: The light-filled living room contains a Lucian Freud etching (a birthday gift from Senk), a lemon-yellow English Arts and Crafts settee, and a constellation-like cocktail table, while hanging in the library are colorful Alexander Calder\u2013designed curtains discovered at a Manhattan flea market.   All are artfully arranged by Johnson, whose Sundance Channel show, Man Shops Globe, takes viewers along on his hunt for gorgeous treasures (some have been reproduced and sold at Anthropologie, others provide inspiration for its ever-changing antiques-oriented merchandise). The dining room&amp;#039;s wallpaper, the color of grape bubble gum, playfully sets off a large Cuban mahogany table and a distressed tufted-leather billiard bench. In opposite corners stand two roof finials\u2014large terra-cotta dogs poised as if ready to come to life. Rooms open up like curio cabinets: In the kitchen, a group of silver serving platters and a concrete bull&amp;#039;s head are displayed above a small breakfast table; on the opposite wall, vintage French cutting boards lean against a window through which the nearby Guggenheim Museum can be seen.   The decor perfectly suits the circa-1928 apartment, full of interesting corners and alcoves. &amp;quot;The space really straddles two eras,&amp;quot; Senk says, &amp;quot;Victorian and modern.&amp;quot; The couple, who met at age nine when Johnson&amp;#039;s family moved in next door to the Senk residence on Long Island, decided to retain the traditional floor plan, which included a pantry with bedroom. This was due more to exhaustion than a design choice, admit the pair, whose first home together in 1976 was a rented Manhattan studio for $225 a month\u2014&amp;quot;lots of pillow furniture, plants, and a sawhorse table,&amp;quot; Johnson recalls\u2014followed by a dizzying list of locations, among them Philadelphia, London, and San Francisco. They had given their last place a complete overhaul, and Senk says, &amp;quot;We were so tired that when we came here we just said, &amp;#039;Enough.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;   They did, however, make some cosmetic changes, such as getting rid of the Pepto-Bismol\u2013pink floors and mint-green wallpaper in the front of the apartment. One of the master bedrooms was remade into a tailored home office and now features an exquisite wood-and-iron table crafted by South African designer Gregor Jenkin and a folk-art chair cast from an old tractor seat. The second bedroom suite was converted into a cozy library, with an antique English sofa (the model for an Anthropologie bestseller) and a pair of multicolor cracked-glass sconces, which lend the room a loungy atmosphere. The lights once lived on a &amp;#039;60s Italian ocean liner\u2014stare at them long enough and you fall into a La Dolce Vita fantasy.   &amp;quot;Everything in here I found with the store in mind,&amp;quot; Johnson says. Almost everything, that is. Placed discreetly in a hallway leading to their bedroom is a sweet photo of the two as teenagers on Long Island, standing in front of the home of Johnson&amp;#039;s parents. Both are grinning and appear to be sharing an inside joke. Some things, it turns out, can&amp;#039;t be found in a store.  Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;New York Apartment: Worldly Viewpoint.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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