Homes & Antiques

Lennox Cato

It was inevitable Lennox Cato would make art and antiques his profession. He spent his childhood immersed in the colourful, exciting and bustling world around the antiques shops in the warren of narrow, twisting alleyways of The Lanes in Brighton in the Sixties and Seventies.

‘I was adopted and my parents were antiques dealers,’ he says. ‘They were also picture dealers and my father would go from shop to shop selling. He was what would have

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