This is a showcase for the remarkable furniture of Viscount Linley, son of the late Princess Margaret. His designs are complex. For example, his Apsley House Desk is done in French walnut with ebony and nickel-plated detailing, contains secret drawers, and is rimmed with a miniature of the neoclassical Apsley House. Linley's clients include Elton John, Mick Jagger, and Nina Campbell. The director at the Victoria and Albert Museum predicts that Linley's furnishings and accessories will become "the antiques of the future."

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's London 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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