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well as sconces by Ignazio Gardella for TATO and wall lamps attributed to Jacques Biny. The mix of collectible design and customization gives the house character, as though the interiors have been assembled over generations. The client's wide-ranging art collection reveals a depth of interests, including lithographic reproductions from Joan Miró's 1964 Quelques Fleurs pour des amis portfolio, poetic 21st-century photography by Natália Evelyn Bencicová, and a trio of intimate small paintings of everyday scenes by artist John Joseph Mitchell. A 2016 wall textile by Karen Hampton — an artist known for exploring African American history through hand-dyed, repurposed fabrics — is juxtaposed with British illustrator Hugo Guinness' crisp black-and-white prints. Together, the furnishings and art create an unexpectedly rich and personal backdrop. While the house fits seamlessly into the diverse early architectural fabric of River Oaks, it could have just as easily been plucked from somewhere along the Mediterranean. "The house is like a small hotel in Italy," Bill Curtis says. "It's very curated — with a certain attitude, a certain style, a certain joie de vivre." 96