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  • Simply You

    Chrystelle Baran

    Mar 03, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS JESSICA-BELLE GREER
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MEEK ZUIDERWYK & HELEN BANKERS
    STYLING
    KAYLA JURLINA
    HAIR & MAKEUP
    LEISA WELCH

    One of the most prized possessions in Chrystelle Baran and Nick Ferneyhough’s home is a French trumeau oil painting in heavenly golds and Aegean blues, depicting the love story of Zeus and Europa. The resplendent 19th-century mirror decoration portrays the moment the Greek god transforms into a bull to carry the princess of Tyre away from the shore where she was picking flowers. According to the myth, the area they travelled together was named Europe in honour of their story.

    As purveyors of luxury antiques and furnishings from Europa’s domain, Chrystelle and Nick have turned sourcing homeware for their Baran de Bordeaux boutique into an art form of its own. With the pair journeying to the continent for four

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