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• Outrageous luxury is what our clients want!

• I learned my trade by going out every evening as a young man," he told art historian Rosamond Bernier. "I went to every pretty house in France and Italy and other places too, and I remembered them all, even down to what was on each little table.

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• The rooms must not look new. They must give the impression that they evolved over generations.