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one ot the artists in residence at The Inn at Little Washington, remodeling the interior into a masterpiece of the Old World.
Watching him at work is like watching a first rate magician wave the magic wand that saws the beautiful lady in half right before your eyes. It works but you don't know how.
With Malcolm, you can watch as he rather absentmindedly waves his brush back and forth across pink plywood with less attention than Mandrake the Magnificent gives to pulling a string of multihued scarfs from up his sleeve.
You stand inches away during the transformation, never taking your eyes from his brush, and still you can only shake your head in amazement as the plywood suddenly becomes mahogany.
Amateur home decorators swept away in the antiqueing craze a decade or so ago painted, rubbed and gilded hundreds upon hundreds of ordinary pieces into what they thought could pass for treasures handed down from great-grandmother’s parlor.
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