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"Alessandra Branca&amp;#39;s 10 Favorite AD Rooms\nHand-picked spaces that are inspiring the Chicago-based decorator now\nIn the dining room of Brooke Shields\u2019s New York townhouse, a tole chandelier from Laurin Copen Antiques is paired with Jansen chairs and a vintage Ralph Lauren Home marble-top pedestal table. Zuber\u2019s Les Lointains wallpaper lines the room; the wide-plank floor is stained in Sydney Harbour Paint\u2019s Palm Beach Black.\\n\\nPin it.\nCirca-1800 French riverscapes share the garden hall with antique marble busts depicting the four seasons at fashion mogul Leon Max\u2019s English estate. The painted benches were designed in the manner of 18th-century British architect William Kent.\\n\\nPin it.\nIn a Manhattan apartment, the study&amp;#39;s existing millwork was refreshed with a peacock shade, the sofa is by Avery Boardman, and the tea set is by Herm\u00E8s.\\n\\nPin it.\nThe mirror that surmounts pianist Katia Lab\u00E8que&amp;#39;s\u2019s sink is 18th-century Italian, as is the polychrome stool.\\n\\nPin it.\n\u201CThe shiny walls glitter at night and glitter during the day, reflecting the lights of the city,\u201D Mario Buatta says of Hilary Geary and Wilbur Ross\u2019s apartment on the 30th floor of a Manhattan high-rise.\\n\\nPin it.\nFriederike Kemp Biggs painted the kitchen cabinets in her New York penthouse with a rubbed finish of black over Chinese blue, limned in gold.\\n\\nPin it.\nThe palette of Princess Firyal of Jordan\u2019s grand salon in London, designed in the mid-1980s by Renzo Mongiardino, was inspired by Indian watercolors.\\n\\nPin it.\nIn a New York apartment by Stephen Sills, the dining room walls are paneled in a hand-painted embossed leather, and an artwork by Anish Kapoor surmounts the fireplace; 19th-century Russian chairs surround the table, which is topped with a pair of round Franco Deboni ceramic vessels from Bernd Goeckler Antiques. The carpet is by F. J. Hakimian.\\n\\nPin it.\nIn a New York penthouse designed by Michael Smith, delphiniums in a William Yeoward crystal vase and an Imari porcelain lidded jar top a Directoire mahogany table from Gerald Bland.\\n\\nPin it.\n\u201CWe needed an electric charge of le style Rothschild,\u201D designer Peter Marino says of a 1929 Tudor Revival house he renovated for a couple in Greenwich, Connecticut. His solution? \u201CFabrics with an exotic texture, a splash of chartreuse in every room, and furnishings that channeled the Raj,\u201D he says.\\n\\nPin it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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