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AUBUSSON

TAPESTRY
ADAM HILLS, salvage dealer and
co-founder of Retrouvius

My wife Maria refuses to let us part
with a tapestry in our house – a mid
20th-century French example from
Aubusson. Tapestries are really
coming back. Antique and vintage
textiles are very much the starting
point when we work on the design
of an interior. The colours in the
textiles can dictate the scheme of
the room. And at antiques fairs and
markets, you can !nd rugs, curtains
and clothing that not only have great
colours you can work with, but also
textures. I’m all about materiality
and tactility in a home – the things
and surfaces you touch.

Aubbousson by Jean
Picart Le Doux (1902-82),
£5,994, Retrouvius.

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