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o enter this imposing house, in a west London square,
is to become drawn into an ongoing story about the
history of furniture design: of how the style of one

removed in time, can be used together. Designer Jonathan Reed – he
of the subtle, textural interiors that work on every level – has created
a sophisticated, often witty, and always comfortable house in which
of ways.
The owners of the house previously lived in New York, where they
had been enthusiastic and knowledgeable collectors of eighteenth and
early nineteenth-century furniture. But when they moved to London,
they decided it was time for a new collecting interest – twentieth-

loved such designs, they knew that it would not be easy to combine
the eighteenth century with the twentieth, so they asked Jonathan to
linking the two styles with his own designs.

LEFT: The screen hanging above the billiards table in the family room is by
Sol LeWitt. The curtains are ‘Willow’, a linen designed by Albert Hadley in 1960

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