The most recent project, completed last winter, was a restoration of the French Renaissance ceiling.
| March 24 at 7: "Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?" (1966, William Klein; in French) and "Ceiling" (1962, Vera Chytilová; in Czech).
The dining room is just as impressive, with its centerpiece stone fireplace, French doors, ceiling fans, wood floors and pale green wainscotted walls.
This room, restored after the fire, includes a huge French Rococo ceiling, characterised by Ian Constantinides, the lead restorer, as possessing a "coarseness of form and crudeness of hand ... completely overshadowed by the sheer spectacular effect when you are at a distance".
The suite, which features stone and French oak ceilings and an 18th-century limestone fireplace, includes a spacious bedroom, private patio and his-and-hers baths.
In the music room (top left), modeled after 16th-century French chateaus, repainted ceiling beams now conceal sprinkler pipes.
Then she headed back through high French doors — the ceiling was more than nine feet tall and the doors must have been eight — and into the large formal dining room.
The sitting room has floor-to-ceiling French doors that open to a roof terrace, and the suite also has a dining room with its own cocktail bar and cloakroom.
The couple admired the tin ceilings, French doors, fireplace with mantel and claw-foot tub.
ceilings, French doors, oak floors, new windows; needs work; 1-car garage, 24-by-100-ft.
