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Although tucked behind the library, the
study is not sidelined. Anchored by a proud
leather-top desk, the handsome wood-pan-
eled room shows decorative restraint, but
does allow for animation via an array of
objects and art. Antique lithographs by the
likes of French painter Georges Braque,
champion of the avant-garde Jean Cocteau
and Dutch artist Karen Appel. Photographs
by another Frenchman, Guy Bourdin, and
American iconoclast Man Ray. Accents of a
particular vintage: an Italian floor lamp from
Stilnovo, 1960s Danish brass sconces, and
a desk lamp by Spanish modernist Pedro
Martín from the same era.
This project is not a period piece, however.
It is not overly deferential. It is a well-fash-
ioned contemporizing of nostalgia with a
sense of place. That place is here. It is now.
This is not Paris, and it is not Saint Laurent.
It's London.
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and warm materiality." Formed by custom
marble-clad library cabinets and a slick
glass brick partition with a geometric motif
that separates it from the kitchenette, the
dining room is a debonair example, contin-
ing the project's procession of Mahogany
and marble, but complementing it with a
splash of plush velvet green. Material in
this room, the designers divulge, deviates
from Saint Laurent in Paris to the modernist
Villa Müller by Adolf Loos, but the grouping
of dark Mahogany wood, patterned marble
and green upholstery "feels so chic, yet
warm and unpretentious." Dining chairs by
Charlotte Perriand, a round maple table
by Kos and Huang, and Ingo Maurer's
Uchiwa chandelier—a delicate concoc-
tion made with overlapping fans and a
bamboo frame—leaves that assessment
unchallenged. Grounding it all is a rug is
from Child Studio's Bauhaus-inspired rug
collection.
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