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    Entente Cordiale

    Jun 24, 2020 4 minutes
    FEATURE CELIA RUFEY
    PHOTOGRAPHS JODY STEWART

    Historic French textiles and furniture are the essential backdrop to any place that Nicole Fabre calls home. And if her delectable accent gives the impression she is a recent arrival on this side of the Channel, it does not tell the truth. Nicole fell in love with England when she moved here as a student in the late 1960s, and has lived here ever since. She first came to the notice of interior designers and lovers of antique textiles when she opened a shop on the King’s Road, London in 1993. Here she sold the finest 18th-century French textiles to collectors and museums, and to textile companies who bought the designs in order

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