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"An English Merger\nConsolidating a Life Well Lived in Notting Hill\n\"It's urban, contemporary and very individual,\" interior designer John Stefanidis says of his London residence. He drew inspiration for the entrance hall mirror's frame from Borromini.\nMan with Lone Pine&amp;gt; by Vittorio Amato stands on the faux-marbre mantelpiece in the living room.\nArranged in a corner of the sitting room, which has walls clad in vertical and horizontal pine boards, are four studies of irises by Teddy Millington-Drake. The shelves hold Japanese ceramics and stacks of photo albums that have ribbons embroidered with identifying dates.\nUntitled Series II by Mark Francis hangs above the sitting room fireplace; next to it is blue-and-white Spode porcelain. A William Morris cachepot, left, is on an 18th-century table.\n\"Where to put my books was a priority,\" says Stefanidis, who sits in the small library.\nThe dining room opens onto the garden. \"I thought I'd use it only in summer, but in fact I use it year-round,\" notes the designer. He painted the walls, which he calls \"invented marble,\" in lilac and gray. The stone tabletop is supported by a rusticated and pebbled cement base.\n\"The small red library disappears behind secret doors hung with charcoal sketches of Venice,\" Stefanidis points outs. The walls, sofa and tables are covered in handwoven Florentine silk moir\u00E9. The ottoman and pillow needlepoints were done by friends and relatives.\nWatercolors of India and Burma by Millington-Drake are displayed above a Le Corbusier chair in the master bedroom. A statue of the Hindu god Ganesha, a Jean Cocteau plate and a Pacific seashell rest on the 1930s English chest of drawers. The 18th-century gilt mirror is Italian."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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