conceived as a home for the couple���s books, with shelves
integrated into the pilasters and dados of the dining room,
which doubles as a library. This is an intensely introspective
apartment, one devoted to looking inward, toward hearth,
book and self. Yet there is, if possible, as much to look at as
there is to read, a careful fusion of what the English artist Paul
Nash called ���book and room.���
A la Soane, precious relief sculptures adorn the architectural
setting. In the entry hall rotunda are important marble reliefs
by Thorvaldsen set into the walls, which are painted to imitate
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