With a living room like a blue lagoon, a bathroom out of the tropics and a closet, headboard and curtains done up in rich crimson, Whitney Robinson is never starved for color.

“I grew up in an apartment that was 50 shades of greige,” explains the Town & Country style director, who shares his Carnegie Hill one-bedroom with his partner, CFDA editorial and communications director Marc Karimzadeh, and their photogenic poodle. “My mother actually swatched the bisque at Bergdorf Goodman.”

Robinson prefers a more vivid palette for his home — inside a Philip Johnson-designed building — but shares his mother’s dedication to Pantone perfection.

He teamed up with decorator David Kaihoi (a Miles Redd protégé who lives in a much-admired lavender pad) to choose glamorous paint and memorable paper, transforming Robinson’s 1,200-square-foot condo into something like a Chinese lacquer box.

The lustrous wall treatments — handcrafted over eight months by a team of 10 artisans — set the stage for the owners’ collection of art, antiques, vintage treasures and books.

Everything has a story, from the original 1966 copy of Jacqueline Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls” in the bookcase (the author was his step-grandmother, and he is the manager of her estate) to the sheepskin chairs he “stole” from Selena Gomez at a Paris gallery.

Reclining on his absinthe Scalamandré velvet sofa during our Alexa shoot, Robinson reflects on the watery beauty of the turquoise strié lacquer walls. “I never get sick of this room,” he says. “At night, it glows.”