Paint Makes It Perfect ; Two Antiques Dealers with a Love of the Decorative Arts Have Created a Dazzling Home. Pattie Barron Finds Their Secret
Evening Standard - London › August 12, 2009
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LIVING the French dream is not always what it's cracked up to be. So says Anne Fowler who, after five years living in the lovely Gers in the Midi Pyrenees region of France with her partner Alan Lloyd, made a joint decision to come home. "We'd watch Wimbledon and English country programmes on TV in our French rural retreat and think, 'Isn't England wonderful?' And we missed exhibitions, country houses, friends, you name it." Being both antique dealers and lovers of the decorative arts, they returned to Tetbury, the antiques business's heartland, where Fowler had first set up shop herself.
On their return 18 months ago, the pair converted a three-storey Cotswold stone building in the town's famous Long Street, that had formerly been a stationery shop and printers; Lloyd designed the conversion and his son, Julian, who runs his own building company did the internal work.See the full content of this document
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Paint Makes It Perfect ; Two Antiques Dealers with a Love of the Decorative Arts Have Created a Dazzling Home. Pattie Barron Finds Their Secret
Four months' hard graft later, the couple moved in. Fowler had not planned to continue antiques dealing, but then a To Let sign appeared in a shop window across the street.
"It was too good to miss," she says. "I thought 'I'll sel...See the full content of this document
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