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“To rework the interior of an existing historic townhouse with limited scope for structural changes to better suit contemporary living for a family”

– Client Brief

“Some […] houses no longer have the skills to produce couture. It died because they didn’t have the clients and the manpower to do it […] Once you start losing all those artisans that knew how to make those things, it’s like cutting down a forest. It’s not going to grow back. […] Everything is done by hand, it’s impossible to estimate the hours[…]”

– Daphne Guinness, The Telegraph, November 27 2011