"There's just a lot more freedom, " said Summer Thornton, a Chicago designer who mixed bold 1960s fabrics with animal prints in the space she decorated at a show home in Lake Forest, Ill.

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Luckham and Torres milled down old fabrics and mixed the fibers with a polymer, then added a solvent that would evaporate before the formula hit a surface and turned solid on contact.

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Although most of the furniture was bought by Braka and Graham, the couple enlisted Robert Kime, the celebrated decorator who was appointed by the Prince of Wales to renovate Clarence House, to design the bedrooms and sitting rooms in his trademark style of fine upholstery mixed with English and Ottoman fabrics.

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His trademark work with unconventional fabrics like embellished denim and leather, mixed with wild animal prints and exotic patterns, was embraced by the jet set and Cavalli opened his first boutique in Saint Tropez in 1972.

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