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STORY BY HOLLIE DEESE PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIELLE ATKINS
FUTURE HEIRLOOMS ROYAL CIRCUS STOCKS SOULFUL PIECES TO MAKE A HOUSE A HOME
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t may have all started with an unrealized dream, but the end result is something that seems meant to be for the growing arts-andcreatives community of Wedgewood-Houston. Open since August, Royal Circus is the collaboration between Michael Dukes, 59, and Geoffrey Gill, 27. A furniture store with a global theme, the idea is to 26 | NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM
provide thoughtful shoppers the kinds of things they would want to be a part of the story their family tells about them someday. But it was almost an Indian restaurant! Three years ago, Dukes and a chef considered opening a restaurant together. Dukes threw himself into the branding and the design, which led him into a rabbit hole of
