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Leila McConnell says. "Sometimes you find nothing; this time, I came back with two items." Some of his favorite new finds currently on the floor include a 1977 Frank Stella painting, a pair of 19th- century Louis XV-style bergères in vintage leopard silk velvet, and a petite Louis XVI chinoiserie commode by Claude-Charles Saunier, whose pieces are found in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I love modern, and I love antiques," says Brock, who has a master's in fine art. "If it's magical or somehow sexy, it works." Nick Brock & Company, 1322 Slocum St., nickbrockantiques.com. Opposite page: Mid-18th-century French painted panels, 1970s chairs by Frank Mariani for Pace Collection. Clockwise from top left: Carved and gilded 18th-century lion, France; pair of George III petite knife boxes. English Regency Sheraton secretary bookcase, circa 1800; 18th-century Chinese reverse- painted glass pictures; Louis XVI fauteuils, circa 1790. Doug Ohlson's Capriglia Series II and III; Venetian console, one of a pair, from a William Haines-designed home, Beverly Hills, circa 1940. Grand Tour souvenirs; 17th-century Italian vargueño. Chinese coromandel screen, 18th century; 19th-century Chinese ginger jar; 19th-century French and Portuguese Palissy ware. Mid-20th-century German tole floral lantern; collection of 18th-and-19th-century dog collars; Louis XV giltwood console.