Home design highlights art of female form

There are men who love women, and then there’s Joe Best, who sees art in the form of women and women in the form of art.

Throughout the extensive art collection in his 6,000-square-foot Peachtree Battle home, recurring images display the glory of the female: the majestic sweep of her hair, the slope of her shape, the glittering gown meant for her.

Best built this home specifically to showcase a mix of paintings and sculpture from every vantage point. But the women command center stage. That’s why he bordered the foyer’s Brazilian cherry floors with an inlay whose lines function like arrows, drawing the eye of one entering the home to the hall’s end. Here, a mesh of red wire lit from above throws against the far wall the shadow of a sculpted female torso.