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e formal dining room has, at its center, a Torano marble rectangular dining table with a white marble top and burnished brass base from Restoration Hardware. e eight accompanying dining chairs are Wexler Square chairs in indigo velvet with matching burnished brass bases, with two additional Wexler Barrelback chairs at the table ends. e blue not only works with the vintage rug in the room, but also references the blue velvet sofa in the formal living room. Blue is picked up again in the new carpet up the stair to the first floor, which has a steel grey-blue pattern with leather edging, sourced from Stark Carpets. e eye is also drawn to the back of the formal dining room and its standout piece of furniture: a backlit, gold-leafed Preview-A gilt display cabinet, with an LED-lit, ivory painted interior and four framed and glass-inset adjustable shelves, plus a striking scalloped gold pattern to the front of the glass doors, used to display the couple's wedding crystal. Lighting in the room is glamorous and dramatic and includes an overhead Soscik chandelier, made up of swoops of interlacing metal chain over a nickel-plated frame. Stream wall lights by Christian Lava for Terzani to either side were handmade in Florence and Sicily and feature a metal chain that appears to float down from an undulating nickel- plated frame in cascading tiers. To ensure the room could encompass both the gold leaf and brass finishes of the furniture and the silver metal of the chandelier, Knof 's final choice was an original, Art Deco, verre églomisé silvered and gilt wall mirror with a bevelled edge plate that uses and unifies both colours of metal. Below it is a washed dark blue console with gold accents (the Curiosity Crendenza by HFH), whilst white lacquer tray tables with antique natural brass accents alongside, by Jonathan Adler, add a more contemporary note. D I N I N G R O O M Mountain Lakes Dining Room V U E N J . C O M 75

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