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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Scarlett Conlon

Toast of the town: a home in Oxfordshire

Green light: colour, texture and handmade furniture.
Green light: colour, texture and handmade furniture. Photograph: Rachael Smith/The Observer

Imagine, if you will, that you picked up a painting of an unknown but beautiful rural British landscape by chance 40 years ago in a French flea market near to where you were raising your young family. You loved it, so you’ve hung on to it all these years, moving it from wall to wall, house to house, country to country. Fast forward to 2021, you take it to be reframed in Oxfordshire where you have recently relocated and realise the scene you’ve been looking at all these years is the very town to which you have moved.

“I kid you not,” says Suzie de Rohan Willner as she relates the tale at the detached Georgian house

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