Madeleine Castaing’s Singular Brand of Rebellion

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The chambers designed by interiors doyenne Madeleine Castaing were art installations as much as decoration commissions: “I decorate houses the way that others paint pictures or write books,” the 1894-born antiques dealer and artists’ patron had once said, in a statement that somehow eluded the very literal nature of her meaning. The rooms Castaing created – with their muslin-lined walls, Neo-classical furniture and Indian floral chintz – could send a guest straight into the…