The Gracie Paper Marshall Watson Saved For Is Now the Heart of His New York Home

Interior designer Marshall Watson has shown off his New York apartment, and it is built around shades of blue and one splurge he made for himself. The splurge is a vintage Gracie wallpaper. He paid for it the way many people buy something they really want, by giving up several weeks of his earnings. That is the only price on the record, and it is all this desk will say about it: the paper cost him real time at work. Read that way, the blue rooms around the paper look like the choice of a designer who knew which piece mattered most and gave it the best wall.

With reporting from Veranda.