Expert Who Refuses to Play by the Rules ; Anything Goes in the County Durham Home of Tv Antiques Expert David Harper. Karen Wilson Gets the Tour.
The Journal › November 21, 2009
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MIXED up is how David Harper describes his home style. And looking around his three-bedroom converted cow byre near Barnard Castle, it's easy to see why. Antiques from all eras are mixed with new pottery and lamps, re-upholstered sofas, quirky junk shop finds and artwork from around the world. In the garden room, an Indian bronze from a temple sits alongside an English Regency table from 1820. On the other side of the room, you'll find a late 17th Century corner cabinet decorated in a Japanese style next to a pot-bellied Chinese god of wealth.
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Expert Who Refuses to Play by the Rules ; Anything Goes in the County Durham Home of Tv Antiques Expert David Harper. Karen Wilson Gets the Tour.
"It's anything that takes your eye really," he says. "I don't care where they come from as long as I like them. And I don't really care whether they go or not. I don't like rules."
The 42-year-old is best known as an antiques expert and TV presenter on shows such as BBC1's Bargain Hunt and BBC2's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.Originally from Yarm, Cleveland, he launc...See the full content of this document
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