I’m sitting face to face with a sculpture of the Hindu deity Ganesh, across a dining table stacked with bills and papers. To my left, a neon EAT sign sits atop a jukebox, and to my right, in a high-ceilinged living room, five canvas wings of a ceiling fan lazily move the August air.

Behind Ganesh, outside tall windows, banana trees wave in the warm wind in the atrium where we’ll soon have lunch. Opposite the atrium is a tall indoor botanical sanctuary and aviary and, beyond that, an
acre of green grass adorned with ponds, other sculptures and a vastly impressive vegetable garden.

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