THE FIRST TIME I visited the loft Grimanesa Amorós shares with her husband, William Grant Fleischer, and daughter Shammiel, it was on the occasion of a dinner party. The vast living room atop a wonderful old Tribeca building was lit only by candles and Amorós’s light sculptures, which rest on the floor or float through the air the way jellyfish do through water, pulsing in different colors and appearing to shift shapes.
Amorós was born and raised in Lima, Peru, and the loft is populated with a mix of art and furnishings from her childhood and later travels: rugs from India and Morocco, a coffee table from Indonesia, a bird boat from Myanmar, 17th- and 18th-century lanterns and wooden chests. No two sofas are alike, and during the party, guests…