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“I was totally taken aback,” he says of the lavish living room scene, which featured matching linen curtains, wallpaper and the brand’s popular ’40s-style armless Tuileries sofa, all patterned with the lattice-like botanical swirls of Lotus Palmette, a Soane print inspired by a 16th-century Safavid silk velvet panel.

The Palladio Awards, given for excellence in traditional building, claim the palmette for a symbol.

Palmette, pal′met, n. an ornament, somewhat like a palm-leaf, cut or painted on mouldings, &c.

These examples are double guilloches, with two rows of circles, each with an independent interlacing band and united by a small arc with palmette inside; in both the single and double guilloches of Greek work there is a flower in the centre of the circles.

Plain stel� of Hippocrates and Baukis; surmounted by an acroterion in low relief, of palmette form.