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...But, of course, who could be in Paris without exploring its vintage, art and design galleries? One of the most cherished places is Galerie Vauclair....
...Since her teens, the English interior designer Flora Soames has scoured Provençal flea markets, East Anglian antiques shops, car-boot sales, auction houses and dealers in search of decorative treasures,...
...“It’s a place where discussions happen and problems are solved.” Many of today’s artists toy with the plate’s decorative history and its links to industry to start conversations....
...Accompanying chapters take readers behind the scenes of Uniacke’s design process, and showcase antiques, editions and textiles. Rizzoli, $75...
...“The materials speak to its origin and come from an emotional place.”...
...“They take you back to different times and places, and that is very powerful and comforting, especially at the moment.”...
...“The market today is polarised between commercial pieces you see everywhere and pieces taken out only for special occasions,” she adds....
...It’s a place to lose yourself in pattern and print, get a first glimpse of French and international design, and take in the city’s antique troves and markets en route....
...Now, whenever I go to an antique shop, there’s usually a Japanese bowl of some sort. I like to place them somewhere I can see the inside of them....
...She’s been sourcing antiques for the project for four years and jokes that she cleaned out the flea markets. “I wanted it to seem as if everything had always been there,” she says....
...Square, with Sir David Chipperfield leading the architecture and interiors team....
...A lot of the original glass and ceramic fittings are still in place. Last, don’t forget vintage and antique boxes, caddies and other storage solutions for small items....
...It’s a place that, as Brown says, “can represent anything we feel passionate about”....
...The place that means a lot to me is the Beech Forest in Provincetown. My boyfriend, Stephen, and I walk here year round....
...Line and Erika June also oversee the design and interiors of the family hotels, and their love of cosy spaces is reflected throughout the house....
...The bold colours, geometric forms and eclecticism that define the look of places like Ammos and Maiami – a sort of neo-Minoan aesthetic – are bubbling in a handful of other places....
...But there, in the centre of the city, the space beneath is used as a shaded plaza, a place of public gathering for markets, festivals and picnics, giving way to the city rather than the rainforest....
...The antiques hail from the south of France and northern Spain as well as all the best shops and weekend markets around the Canale di Pirro, where Pistola is....
...As a child growing up in Denmark, Lars Noah Balderskilde spent his free time in a couple of places: the airfield and the flea market....
...and European antiques, extravagant fabrics and workaday Portuguese stone....
...shop signs, collected from antique emporiums and flea markets around the world....
...But I was struck by how many younger designers and creatives expressed a debt to Kime — famed for being King Charles’s favourite interior decorator — and his romantic, antiques-centred aesthetic....
...LA’s cut-throat real-estate market put paid to owning a home close to Galerie Half and the net was cast wider....
...With clients who include interior designer Nicola Harding and architect Thomas Heatherwick, co-founder Marie Carlisle says her goal is to “bring luxury and sustainability together”....
...care about antique gilt-bronze mounted porcelain, know their vermeil from their Vermeer, and can spot a Louis XIV console table at a hundred paces....
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