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As country houses in the UK go, the Grade I-listed Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire looks every inch the stately Palladian mansion from the outside. Take a stroll within, however, and you’ll be confronted at every corner by sights that, in Lewis Carroll’s words, get curiouser and curiouser.
The family home of James Perkins and his wife Sophie is enchanting, replete as it is with objects that range from the ostentatious to the downright outlandish. Think chairs with antlers, a chest of drawers moulded into a rhinoceros, a lamp made with chocolate resin and ostrich feathers, a model of the 1959 Le Mans-winning Aston Martin DBR1 and even the skull of a triceratops.