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"Katia and Marielle Lab\u00E8que's Apartment and Studio in Rome\nRenowned piano duo and sisters Katia and Marielle Lab\u00E8que collaborate with designer and longtime friend Axel Vervoordt on two new spaces\u2014an apartment and a recording studio\u2014in a pair of historic Roman buildings\nThe Rome apartment of pianists Katia (left) and Marielle Lab\u00E8que was renovated by architect Alessio Lipari and decorated by Axel Vervoordt.\nIn the living room, an antique Italian mirror hangs above the slipcovered Vervoordt sofa, and a bronze Thai Buddha torso is displayed on a sculptor's pedestal. The armchair at right is Louis XIII.\nThe living room's 18th-century French table showcases rare finds, including, at left, an antique pietra ollare bowl and a Han-dynasty bronze vase.\nAt one end of the living room is an antique Italian painted cabinet filled with glassware; a silk curtain masks the Dolby home-theater system.\nA kitchen cabinet is made of reclaimed 17th-century wood.\nFor Katia's bedroom, on a mezzanine, Vervoordt designed the railing from antique metal rods once used as roof supports at the Louvre.\nKatia's bath features a Roman marble tub.\nThe mirror that surmounts Katia's sink is 18th-century Italian, as is the polychrome stool.\nSilk taffeta skirts a 19th-century marble basin in Marielle's bath.\nMarielle's bedroom walls are decorated with 18th-century painted panels, while the coffered ceiling, original to the space, is whitewashed. Above a painted secretary hangs a Baroque Italian gilded mirror; the Savonarola chair dates from the 17th century.\nThe Lab\u00E8ques sit at Steinway grand pianos in their Rome recording studio, which occupies a 1920s former school building and was renovated by architect Serena Mignatti.\nIn the rehearsal room, a sofa and cocktail table, both Vervoordt designs, are joined by Montagnard stools.\nA sandstone sphere in the same space was carved by Thai monks.\nFarmhouse furniture stands beneath a beamed metal ceiling."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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