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Stephen Shubel, France
ichele Keith's excellent compendium,
Designers Abroad: Inside the Vacation Homes of Top
Decorators, documents a most rarefied manifestation
of a phenomenon of our time: the second (or third)
house in a location far from home. The words "Vacation
Homes" are perhaps a misnomer, for the fully articulated
and orchestrated design statements exhibited in these
pages speak of more than a mere holiday. Rather,
they represent the importance a designer must place
on place: the influence of setting on individual talent,
whatever country that talent emanates from and has
been formed by. In an article in HYLAND about the Italian
artist, Francesco Clemente, I referred to the "privileged
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