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Louis XVI gave his wife, Marie Antoinette, Le Petite Trianon so she could have a personal retreat from the formality of the court at Versailles—an 18th-century precursor to "a room of one's own." The same impulse motivated the owner of an 1830's brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, a landmarked neighborhood that abuts the Brooklyn Bridge and New York City's East River, when he commissioned a home spa for his wife. This top-floor home spa, with an adjacent private sitting room and study, is far from the public rooms. And everything about it is soft, feminine, and sumptuously regal.
Photographs by Evan Sklar
