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    Changing Stripes

    Sep 01, 2022 3 minutes
    INTERIOR DESIGN BY W. Gardner, Ltd.
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    Simon Brown
    WRITTEN BY
    Edward McCann

    ITH AN EARLY interest in the decorative arts, Bill Gardner has been collecting his entire life—from valuable antique furniture to colorful vintage Mexican pottery. The longtime Houston antiques dealer and proprietor of W. Gardner, Ltd., even recalls the first antique he ever purchased. “I must have been 12 or 13,” he says, “and I remember going into a shop and buying an English blue and white teacup and saucer for $3.00.

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