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Holdon Chronicles
Notes from the atelier, style markers, things seen. A slow read around the detail that is the cabinet handle.
A collection of ornament is never truly finished. This is how the great European houses built their decorative repertoire over the centuries: in small touches, a pattern added here, a shape revisited there, rather than in one definitive gesture. Each addition has to find its place among what already exists, or risk remaining an isolated curiosity. The Classica Europa collection grows the same way. This fall, it welcomes two patterns and one silhouette: Royal Sun, the emblem of the Sun King; Shell, a motif that has run through five centuries of ornament; and the Florentine Medallion, an oval…
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