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Interior trends, design advice, furniture care and behind-the-scenes stories from the atelier and the villa.
How to light a room built around gilded wood
Gold is not a colour so much as a behaviour — it does different things at different times of day. A short guide to layering warmth, choosing bulbs, and the case against the ceiling spotlight.
Read the articleFurniture care
Velvet, silk or damask: choosing upholstery that lasts
What the trade knows about fabric that the showroom won’t say.
Interior trends
The return of the statement dining room
Why the ten-seat table is quietly becoming the heart of the house again.
Behind the scenes
Eleven years to touch a client’s gold
Inside the training of a master gilder, and why patience is the material that matters most.
Material guides
A short history of burr walnut
The most prized veneer in the workshop, where it comes from, and how to live with it.
Project stories
Furnishing a villa above Monaco
How the Ispahan Sofa was remade from the one in the villa’s grand salon.