LULU LYTLE has been an Egyptomaniac all her life. Yes, massive cultural obsessions with the ancient civilization have come and gone, but the cofounder of Soane Britain has been having an Egypt moment since she was a little girl collecting travel brochures about the far-flung destination. She wrangled a trip there with her parents at age 17. "To me it was completely intoxicating," she says. "The intensity of the heat and the light, the extraordinary relief of the shade, the ripples on the Nile, the overwhelming scale of the architecture. I was in love."
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