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Reside — Spring 2025

OUT OF THIS WORLD

A dream team of architect, designer and builder.
A home that blurs every boundary.

It is not a home that shouts its superiority. grandeur of Parisian architecture.
Tucked into the walled, gated and Contrasting with the traditional
guarded enclave of Place des Vosges — exterior, the interior of the home, by
just 16 elegant homes in the Turtle Creek renowned interior designer Paul Draper, is
area, on the edge of Highland Park — an strikingly contemporary — an avant-garde
extraordinarily discreet residence offers a sanctuary for collectors and connoisseurs.
rare fusion of classical sophistication and Its heady mix of materials includes plaster,
cutting-edge artistry. rosewood, oak, limestone, sandstone,
Commissioned by prominent art marble, onyx, gold leaf and brass — with
collectors, with cost as no object, this one- an effect that is, at once, both restrained
of-a-kind home boasts unmatched integrity and luxe. An exemplar is the monumental
in both its design and construction. Here, fireplace surround in the two-story living
architect James Langford has penned a room: It is a rare, 18th-century chimneypiece
four-story home as an homage to French sourced from Jamb in London, attributed
châteaux, with its radius-cut Lueders to Henry Cheere, carver to Westminster
limestone, intricate ironwork and regal, Abbey, and made of Convent Siena marble,
commanding presence that evokes the statuary white marble and Sicilian jasper.

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