At Hurel Paris, an independent textile house dating back to 1873, a employee fluffed a length of embroidered white tulle that resembled a mouthwatering pile of freshly whipped cream.
Within the embroidery workshop one floor below, seamstresses guided their needles through small squares of material stretched in wood frames; one creating delicate flowers, one other glimmering grids of sequins.
And in a small meeting room on level 4, where antique silk-screening stamps are displayed under a glass-topped table, Baptiste de Bermingham plucked a length of reddish-brown velvet from a drawer and let it puddle on the glass. It resembled molten lava flecked with gold and diamonds.
De Bermingham and his brother Paul are fifth-generation owners of the family-owned firm and as co-managing directors...
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