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 | | Obviously, Coleman and her associates needed to make a convincing case to justify such sweeping changes to the current decor of a house considered by many to be the finest example of English Regency architecture in America. |
 | | The inventory also listed a pier mirror, which, in Regency decorative schemes, would have resided atop the fireplace mantle on a pier, that relatively narrow section of wall between two windows or, in the case of the south parlor, arched alcoves. |
 | | Coleman said she has also gone to Regency period interior designers' written and hand-drawn proposals, some in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, to learn what decorators were offering their fashionable clientele at the time. |
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