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the reassuring premise that people like to be where other people are.
Next door is the dining room, an important room because the family
never eats in the kitchen – there is no kitchen table. ‘What is the point
of having a nice dining room if you don’t use it?’, the owner points out.
‘We did not want a distinction between formal and informal,’ says the
owner, so overlooking the square is a slightly grander area, and at the
together, although ostensibly divided by a leather curtain that is never
the larger room, beneath a dramatic Sol LeWitt screen, is a full-size
billiards table, designed by Jonathan in limed oak, with an alternative
table-tennis top.

TOP: The man’s dressing-bathroom has a central storage unit made of fumed and
limed European oak, with leather drawer pulls reminiscent of a cabin trunk
are set off by a granite worktop

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