The World of Interiors

(C. Jardin) #1

This page anti-clockwise from top: the ‘Library of Memory’. Behind the sofa hangs one of a pair of magnificent six-panel Japanese screens. The architects designed the hybrid lamp-
cum-side tables either side of the sofa; the owner’s study is found through a door in the library. The Batavian bureau was made in c1740 from highly prized calamander wood as a
show-piece for a senior official in the Dutch East India company; the swimming pool is set below the back entrance of the house surrounded by wild-flower meadows and English roses

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