Interviews

At Home With Alexandra Champalimaud

As an interior designer you’ve collected some fascinating pieces. Can you walk us through them? You will see a very beautiful old 17th century, silver Portuguese tray from the royal family and a Roseline Delisle, this wonderful porcelain artist from the 1970s. We have an Egyptian Ptolemaic head, an arm from a Roman statue circa 200 AD and Chinese vessels. They have a message; they have layered stories in them. There is a diptych of One Wall Street by a well-known watercolourist—Leigh Behnke. Texas Fields, the Willard Dixon in my entryway really represents my husband and who he is. He was brought up in Texas and is an incredible man with a huge, wide soul like the open skies in the picture. In my kitchen there are chairs from the 1950s and an Aldo Bakker stool. The man who refinished my dining table thinks it’s a Ruhlmann. Overall, I like to layer an interior, not make like a coordinated outfit.

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