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Above: The couple's bedroom offers an ode to mostly female Surrealists, featuring a collaboration between Leonora Carrington and Edward James (to the right of the Scalamandré curtain), while a Carrington drawing, Map of Down Below, circa 1941, is immediately to the left of the bed. Other headliners are works by Aube Elléouët, the daughter of André Breton, as well as British artist Emmy Bridgewater. Also shown: Scalamandré fabric-covered French armchair, a Venetian chest of drawers and an 18th-century canopy topping an 18th-century architectural embellishment over the bed made up with Pratesi linens. Designer Michael J. Siller praises his clients' "impeccable taste and incredible eye for detail," and notes that in the process of working on this commission, "I gained some lifelong friends." Left: The living room mixes Georgian-style furnishings with the Czech avant-garde, including Portrait of André Breton by Toyen, 1950 (left of the door, top row, left), which was lost for half a century behind Breton's bookcase, and an untitled 1947 collage by Karel Teige (right of the door, top left), which served as the slightly racy image for the exhibition catalog cover. The chandelier was purchased in the town of Nový Bor, Czech Republic. Mary Cullen says of their collecting mania, "Czech art is still not fully integrated into the history of the 20th century." Their collection and its accompanying exhibition will assist in remedying this. JANUARY | PAGE 25 | 2012