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"Roger and I met about 13 years ago when the editor of the newly-launched American Elle Décor asked me to write a feature about him. It was one of my earliest journalistic endeavors, and it was Roger's first press interview. Roger welcomed me into his curious, treasure-laden wonderland, stood on tippy toes (the better to see me eye to eye) and said -- with his marble busts of the Bonaparte clan looking on blankly -- 'Why, Amy, you have an Empire face and hairdo!'
A PAIR OF CHARLES X BOIS CLAIR, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY AND EBONIZED CABINETS
CIRCA 1825
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A PAIR OF CHARLES X BOIS CLAIR, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY AND EBONIZED CABINETS
Circa 1825
Each with a probably later rounded rectangular mottled grey marble top over a frieze drawer, one fitted and baize-lined, over a pair of doors inlaid overall with foliate scroll decoration, on later scroll-carved feet, one stamped MADE IN FRANCE
38in. (97cm.) high, 38½in. (98cm.) wide, 19¾in. (50cm.) deep (2)
Circa 1825
Each with a probably later rounded rectangular mottled grey marble top over a frieze drawer, one fitted and baize-lined, over a pair of doors inlaid overall with foliate scroll decoration, on later scroll-carved feet, one stamped MADE IN FRANCE
38in. (97cm.) high, 38½in. (98cm.) wide, 19¾in. (50cm.) deep (2)