PartyLines- photographs by Patrick McMullan

What would you like to redesign in your life? “My past. No — my living room. Change sofas.”
—Mia Maestro

—Gilles Mendel

—Genevieve Jones

Rudy Giuliani: Red Sox fan? “I'm not a big fan of Rudy Giuliani. And asking me about baseball is like asking me about, uh, Chinese writings.”
—Mikhail Baryshnikov

—Somers Farkas

—Doug Letheren

Did you ever live in New York? “I used to live in the J.C. Penny Building. I paid $535 a month with a doorman, and I thought I was the bomb.”
—Natalie Cole

—Suzanne Farrell

—Jonathan Levien

What's the best-designed thing in your life? “My Fiat 500 from 1958. It has so much character. It was the postwar Ford of Italy — the people's car.” —Rufus Albemarle

—Nipa Doshi

—Wynton Marsalis

What in your life needs to be redesigned? “I just bought a tiny lake house in upstate New York. It definitely needs a little work.” —Kerry Washington

—Jonathan Batiste

What about Rudy Giuliani as a Red Sox fan? “I don't understand that” Betrayal? “I don't know if it's betrayal. I think he's out of his mind.”
—Richard Meier