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Northshore October 2025
Andrew Spindler points to the floor in the entryway of his Gloucester house. Ceramic tiles glow softly in shades of dusty red, blue, and ochre. They flow into the broad living room, where they converge with massive granite fireplace stones, a Jonas Lie frieze depicting Viking ships, and numerous sculptures, books, paintings—not to mention a superb collection of American and European Arts and Crafts furniture. "These are Mercer Tiles," says one of the North Shore’s most respected antiques dealers, "like the ones on the floors at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Spindler’s reference to Gardner, a legendary Boston Gran
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