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A pair of tapestry armchairs flank the fireplace in the drawing room which has been furnished with an interesting mixture of antiques

mixes old and new, superimposing a seventeenth-century needlework
border on a piece of brocatelle above a desk, for example, and placing
a portrait on top. He knows how far he can push. ‘With this sort of
decoration,’ he says, ‘what is most daunting is that one step further

and the whole thing can collapse. You have to be so careful about
how far you can go, but I don’t like chickening out.’
Furniture and objects span the centuries, from a 1620 portrait of a
lady in the court of Henri IV to Alidad’s Velvet Collection gueridon

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