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VILLAGE LIFE

Benjamin (a.k.a. Benni) Frowein, understands New York. As President of Schumacher fabrics, he understands, too, how to make a house very much a home. His apartment, on the second floor of a classic nineteenth century townhouse in New York’s West Village, is small, with a wrought-iron-ladder fire escape serving as an occasional terrace. “This is all I could wish for in New York,” he says, “with views from the front to other

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