| Hubert de Givenchy praised the four-year restoration of the store, from digging out a Roman well and skulls in the cellars to re-gilding the upstairs boiserie. |
| The objects he purchased included a Henri II boiserie, an iron gate from the Chateau de Versailles, and Italian Renaissance furniture. |
| Elegance, and great expanses of painted boiserie, survive to rebuff the surveillance cameras. |
| In addition to the suite of furniture, the gallery contains important paintings by French artists along with a set of eight panels of boiserie. |
| Panels of carved boiserie with original oval paintings were salvaged from a French chateau and reassembled in a Texas house. |
| We are sitting in their design studio, surrounded by stone samples, fabric swatches, fragments of boiserie and classical cornices, antique light fixtures, architectural models and stacks and stacks of hand-painted tiles. |
