Bright Lights, High Ceilings

The curator Jessica Morgan keeps surface decoration to a minimum in her Soho loft.

- BY WENDY GOODMAN

The Dining Area

The prints are John Baldessari's Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) (1973). "This piece has been in every home that we have lived in," says Jessica Morgan. The table is a 2016 prototype by El Último Grito. The Verner Panton Flowerpot pendant lamps are by &Tradition. The Eero Saarinen Tulip side chairs are by Knoll. The Mathilda chairs are by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso.

IT'S FITTING THAT THE DIRECTOR of an arts organization known for its association with minimalism lives in a home light on stuff.

“Frankly, I don’t like having things,” says Jessica Morgan, who leads the Dia Art Foundation, sitting at a spotless table on the second story of the Soho loft she shares with her family. Morgan, who grew up in London, attributes her aversion to objects to moving often when she was a young woman. “The less I had to pack the better. It stuck with me,” she says.