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and Restauration pieces from the Chateau de Jouy, are
arranged with typically English informality—for comfort rather
than grand effect. One is in the presence of important furni-
ture, yet this is a room to inhabit, to live in, to use to good
purpose. Presiding over the ensemble is a cheery spirit in the
form of a painting of Baron Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf,
inventor of toile de Jouy, with his mother, a delightful relic of
the Rococo.
Creswell's own watercolors of Copse Hill evince the informal
elegance of its interiors, transmitting, in turn, the very
Toile de jouy, originally developed by Alexander's ancestors at the Chateau de Jouy
