Photo: A House on the Bayou
Southern antiques dealer Patrick Dunne revives a two-hundred-year-old Creole manor
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Patrick Dunne's country house, Serenity, on Bayou Carron in Washington, Louisiana.
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Dunne with his beloved dog Chene (which means "oak" in French).
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A nineteenth-century Acadian chair guards the entrance to a bedroom.
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A farm sink and copper pots for cooking gumbo.
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A formal Louis XVI canape and eighteenth-century, hand coloreed engravings by Buffon.
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A bare brick floor keep the dining room casual.
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Another view of the dining room.
Patrick Dunne's country house, Serenity, on Bayou Carron in Washington, Louisiana.
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