Rooms to Remember

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Trelliswork panels and palm trees give the main staircase a garden feel. A French figure of Ceres is near a Flemish bust.

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Designer Juan Pablo Molyneux created installations displaying furnishings from antiques dealers Bernard and Benjamin Steinitz's warehouses for their Christie's auction in Paris.

A gallery is staged with images from the Hôtel Matignon.

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Italo-Turkish paneling, set off by a striped fabric, lines a gallery. The Directoire chairs and stools were once in the duc de Talleyrand's collection at the Château de Valençay.

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A set of Dutch Neoclassical chairs.

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Trompe l'oeil wallcoverings mimic an 18th-century boiserie panel, center. A commode by Martin Carlin and a pair of Sèvres biscuit lamps, both circa 1780, are highlights in a gallery of Louis XV and XVI furnishings.

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Photo murals of items in the antiques dealers' warehouses were used as backdrops in several galleries.

A Restauration canapé with a removable back.