Illya Hendrix Thomas Allardyce

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Asian antiques and pieces they designed furnish the living room of their Kauai retreat (see Architectural Digest , September 2004).

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Los Angeles-based Illya Hendrix, right, and Thomas Allardyce founded their eponymous firm in 1980.

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A dining room by the designers in Beverly Hills features circa 1810 Swedish chairs.

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They evoked French style with Italian details for a house near San Francisco ( AD , September 1993).

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The team chose a light palette for the living room of a client's residence in beverly Hills, where French, English and Italian pieces join reproductions by the designers. Diamond-shaped black slate accents the French limestone floors ( AD , February 2003).