Ambrice Miller is sitting in her dining room on a bobbin chair that she designed. On the wall behind her is a hyper-realistic drawing by Ramadhan Hamis, an artist she represents. An equine bust and two Persian rugs also fill the space beneath an antique crystal chandelier from Provence, which hangs from one of the ceiling beams.
This space is actually one of the more understated rooms in her home. “Apparently a collector is just a hoarder, but I’ve also been told it’s not hoarding if what you’re holding on to is beautiful,” says the art dealer and asset manager. The malt house she’s standing in has aged rather gracefully. It has the character you’d expect from a 17th-century property and, while there have been a few nips and tucks here and there, thanks to its good bones, Ambrice and her husband, Ben, who undertook most of the renovation works themselves, didn’t need to do any structural work.
