At Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels’s Clinton Hill home it is all about the viewing experience

Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels in the library of her Clinton Hill apartment. The chair is by Urs Fischer. The construction is by Wendell Renwick. Seth Caplan. ART: Joe Sam. Urs Fischer.

The mirrors came into Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels’s Clinton Hill apartment the way a difficult artwork might enter a gallery: with some complications. The stairs had been mismeasured, requiring scaffolding to be erected at the last minute to haul roughly 10-foot panes of glass through a window. “The neighbors were not used to that,” she says with a laugh. Luckily taken in stride, the episode speaks to something essential about Bellorado-Samuels’s home: It is all about the viewing experience.

Bellorado-Samuels began her career in the art world at the Studio Museum in Harlem before joining Jack Shainman Gallery as an assistant to cofounder Claude Simard.…