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Hannah Cecil Gurney was just two years old when her father, Claud Cecil Gurney, founded de Gournay wallpaper company in 1986 in the basement of their home in Kensington, London. Today, it is world-famous for its hand-painted Chinoiserie, paradise gardens and panoramas. “Nothing from de Gournay ever comes close to a machine,” says Gurney,

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