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Photos: The Quiet American

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    Making the Grounds

    Pleached lindens, right, lead up to the front of the 18th-century stone-tavern house.

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    The Lamb's Club

    Romualdez’s close friend Miranda Brooks and her daughter Violette Grey (his goddaughter) shepherd lambs through the boxwood shadow garden.

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    Creatures of Habit

    Romualdez in his study with Jake, one of his Labradoodles.

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    Darling Buds

    Romualdez upholstered the master bedroom and its furnishings in Braquenié’s “Tree of Life” fabric. On display are Brooks’s landscape master plan, center left, a model of a jet Romualdez outfitted for a client, and, right, a portrait by Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob G. Cuyp.

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    Animal Kingdom

    Lambs graze behind the house.

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    Bright Lights

    In the living room, a collectsion of prized birds and glass-encased specimens complements Richard Wathen’s fauna-rich oil-on-linen Llareggub, 2009. The custom sofa, covered in Rogers & Goffigon “Peloton” fabric, is from J. Edlin Interiors.

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    Spare Bedroom

    A drawing by Konstantin Kakanias rests on the mantel of a guest room. The bed is dressed in Porthault linens, and the child’s chair is 18th-century American.

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    Open House

    In the dining room, an antique American drop-leaf table and a set of Windsor chairs pair with 17th-century Dutch Delft Peacock china.

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    Mirror Mirror on the Wall

    The Chinese bowl in the entrance hall was a gift from Romualdez’s parents—his father was stationed in Beijing in the 1970s as the Philippines’ ambassador to China. The planked maple floor, like the house, dates to 1779.

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    A Fine Geometry

    The gentle slope of Sawyer Hill plays backdrop to the estate’s formal boxwood garden and hornbeam hedge.