The inside of this sleek Lindsay Newman design looks more like the lobby of the W Hotel than the usual oak-paneled clubhouse: The ceiling soars overhead and abstract paintings hang in minimalist rooms.
But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor.
In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.