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A Layered Fall Collection for the Collected Home

Aubigny Traditional Brown Baroque Landscape Tapestry - 90x59 — a brown baroque landscape tapestry, shown as the collection opener
Aubigny Baroque Landscape Tapestry · Kathy Kuo Home
Start with the walls

The walls decide the temperature of everything else. In an estate scheme that means committing to depth early -- plum, chocolate, forest -- before a single piece of furniture is chosen.

Anya Traditional Plum Chinoiserie Bird Wallpaper

Anya Traditional Plum Chinoiserie Bird Wallpaper

A plum chinoiserie in birds and branching foliage. The darkest wall in the collection, and the one that makes everything set against it look older and better.

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Schumacher Before Midnight Chocolate Floral Wallpaper

Schumacher Before Midnight Chocolate Floral Wallpaper

Schumacher's Before Midnight, a chocolate floral drawn loosely enough to read as texture from across a room. Warmth without weight.

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Schumacher La Foret Autumn Green Forest Landscape Wallpaper Panel Set

Schumacher La Foret Autumn Green Forest Landscape Wallpaper Panel Set

A painted forest landscape issued as a panel set. Treated as architecture rather than pattern, it gives a dining room a horizon.

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Heirloom Stripe Sandstone Fibrous Wallpaper

Heirloom Stripe Sandstone Fibrous Wallpaper

A sandstone stripe on a fibrous ground. The quiet option: structure and tooth, no motif, a neutral that still has something to say.

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Then the floor

Four rugs, three of them patterned. Pattern underfoot is the safest place to be brave: you see it in fragments, between furniture, never all at once.

Franchesca French Country Green Wool Oushak Patterned Hand Knotted Rug - 10'x14'

Franchesca French Country Green Wool Oushak Patterned Hand Knotted Rug - 10'x14'

A green Oushak at 10' x 14', hand-knotted. The largest rug here and the one to plan a room around rather than fit into it.

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Frescia Updated Traditional Green Floral Lattice Patterened Rug - 9'2"x12'5"

Frescia Updated Traditional Green Floral Lattice Patterened Rug - 9'2"x12'5"

A green floral lattice at 9'2" x 12'5". Pattern held to a grid, so it organises a room instead of competing with it.

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Gaia Brown Wool Floral Lattice Patterned Hand Knotted Rug - 8'9"x11'9"

Gaia Brown Wool Floral Lattice Patterned Hand Knotted Rug - 8'9"x11'9"

Hand-knotted wool at 8'9" x 11'9", the lattice worked in browns. Reads as an antique already broken in.

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Aisley French Country Brown Wool Floral Patterned Rug - 2'6"x8'

Aisley French Country Brown Wool Floral Patterned Rug - 2'6"x8'

A brown floral runner at 2'6" x 8'. For the hall or the length of a kitchen, where a rug is mostly seen underfoot.

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The light

Amber glass, aged brass, woven fibre. Warm light is what separates a collected room from a furnished one, so the fittings are chosen for the colour of what they cast.

Celine Modern Brass Leather Disc Cascading Chandelier

Celine Modern Brass Leather Disc Cascading Chandelier

Brass discs on leather, cascading. Sculptural enough to carry a double-height stair, disciplined enough not to shout about it.

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Bellatrix French Country Natural Woven Abaca Gold Iron Chandelier

Bellatrix French Country Natural Woven Abaca Gold Iron Chandelier

Woven abaca on a gold iron frame. Natural fibre against metal -- the texture keeps a formal room from going stiff.

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Corin Updated Traditional Amber Glass 6 Light Chandelier

Corin Updated Traditional Amber Glass 6 Light Chandelier

The six-light Corin in amber glass. Warm cast, generous spread; the larger of the two Corins and the one for a full dining table.

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Corin Updated Traditional Amber Glass 4 Light Chandelier

Corin Updated Traditional Amber Glass 4 Light Chandelier

The four-light Corin. Same amber glass and traditional line, scaled for a breakfast room or a smaller landing.

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Valeria Updated Traditional Brass Amber Glass Chandelier - 28"

Valeria Updated Traditional Brass Amber Glass Chandelier - 28"

Brass and amber glass at 28 inches. A single considered gesture over an island or an entry table.

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Griffin Coastal Beach Gold Capiz Dome Pendant

Griffin Coastal Beach Gold Capiz Dome Pendant

Gold capiz in a dome. The shell reads as texture, not motif -- light comes through it softly and evenly.

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Clove French Country Antique Gold Leaf Stem Floor Lamp

Clove French Country Antique Gold Leaf Stem Floor Lamp

Antique gold leaf on a slender stem. Height and a little shine in the corner of a room that has run out of surfaces.

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The dining room

Two round tables, at two scales, and the chairs that answer them. Round because a collected house rarely seats the number it planned for.

Berlin Updated Traditional Brown Mango Wood Round Dining Table - 72"

Berlin Updated Traditional Brown Mango Wood Round Dining Table - 72"

Brown mango wood, round, 72 inches. The larger round -- for a dining room with the floor to give it, and worth the floor.

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Alaine Updated Traditional Brown Walnut Round Dining Table - 60"

Alaine Updated Traditional Brown Walnut Round Dining Table - 60"

Brown walnut, round, 60 inches. Round tables seat awkward numbers gracefully; walnut keeps it from reading new.

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Brently Broadway Olive Linen Dining Chair

Brently Broadway Olive Linen Dining Chair

Olive linen on a clean frame. Colour in the upholstery rather than the pattern, so it sits under a papered wall without argument.

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Rory Rustic Lodge Brown Velvet Oak Dining Arm Chair

Rory Rustic Lodge Brown Velvet Oak Dining Arm Chair

Brown velvet on oak, with arms. The chair to put at the ends of the table, where people sit longest.

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Marielle Fern Green Performance Velvet Sussex Brown Side Chair

Marielle Fern Green Performance Velvet Sussex Brown Side Chair

Fern green performance velvet on a Sussex Brown frame. Green that stays green in low light, in a weave built for daily use.

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Fayth Broadway Dune Linen Counter Stool

Fayth Broadway Dune Linen Counter Stool

Dune linen at counter height. Pale enough to disappear against a stone island, tailored enough to be worth looking at.

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Seating to sit still in

Two upholstered pieces carrying the collection's pattern -- one enclosing, one low.

Juliette Pine Needle Sussex Brown Bergere Chair

Juliette Pine Needle Sussex Brown Bergere Chair

A bergere in pine needle, on a Sussex Brown frame. Enclosed, upright, and meant for reading rather than sprawling.

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Anslie Verdant Tapestry Velvet Ottoman

Anslie Verdant Tapestry Velvet Ottoman

A verdant tapestry velvet ottoman. Pattern at the lowest point in the room, which is exactly where it can be busiest.

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The case pieces

Cabinets, dressers, nightstands. These are the pieces that hold the room's line; everything decorative is arranged against them.

Bien French Country Black Wood Glass Cathedral Arched Cabinet

Bien French Country Black Wood Glass Cathedral Arched Cabinet

Black wood with cathedral-arched glazing. Architecture in a single piece -- put it where a room needs a vertical.

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Anatole French Country Grey Oak Cabinet

Anatole French Country Grey Oak Cabinet

Grey oak, French country in proportion rather than in decoration. Restraint that lets whatever sits on top of it register.

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Melrose French Country White Carrara Marble Brown Wood Double Dresser

Melrose French Country White Carrara Marble Brown Wood Double Dresser

White Carrara over brown wood, double width. Stone and timber in one piece, which is most of a material palette settled at once.

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Alban Updated Traditional Brown Wood Dresser

Alban Updated Traditional Brown Wood Dresser

Brown wood, traditional lines, generous drawers. The unglamorous piece that makes the glamorous ones possible.

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Darius Modern Classic Cerused Oak Ribbed Nightstand

Darius Modern Classic Cerused Oak Ribbed Nightstand

Cerused oak, ribbed. The ceruse catches light along the ribbing and keeps a dark bedroom from going flat.

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Arthur Updated Traditional Brown Walnut Wood Wide Nightstand

Arthur Updated Traditional Brown Walnut Wood Wide Nightstand

Brown walnut, wide. Wide nightstands read as furniture rather than accessories -- worth the wall space.

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The bedroom

One anchor, and the case pieces above do the rest.

Arden Updated Traditional Cream Linen Bronze Metal Canopy Bed - King

Arden Updated Traditional Cream Linen Bronze Metal Canopy Bed - King

Cream linen on a bronze metal frame, king. A canopy draws the eye up and gives a bedroom the ceiling it was always owed, without closing it in.

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What finishes it

Textile, paint, glass and clipped green. The last ten per cent, which is the part that reads as collected.

Aubigny Traditional Brown Baroque Landscape Tapestry - 90x59

Aubigny Traditional Brown Baroque Landscape Tapestry - 90x59

A brown baroque landscape at 90 x 59. Textile on the wall does what paint cannot: it absorbs sound and softens a hard room.

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Artichoke and Figs Painting - 16x18

Artichoke and Figs Painting - 16x18

Artichoke and figs, 16 x 18. Small, dark, and still life in the oldest sense -- best hung low, near where people sit.

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Ronin Traditional Gold Metal Wall Mirror - 42"

Ronin Traditional Gold Metal Wall Mirror - 42"

Gold metal, 42 inches. Sized to sit above a console without crowding it, and to bring the opposite wall into the room.

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Clove French Country Antique Gold Leaf Candle Holder - Set of 2

Clove French Country Antique Gold Leaf Candle Holder - Set of 2

Antique gold leaf, set of two. Candlelight is the only light in this collection you can move.

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Marin French Country Green Boxwood Potted Topiaries - Set of 5

Marin French Country Green Boxwood Potted Topiaries - Set of 5

Boxwood topiaries, set of five. Clipped green repeated along a mantel or a table -- the most disciplined way to bring anything living indoors.

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