Wherever English dealer Keith Skeel buys a residence, he also opens an antiques shop. When he bought an apartment in New York two years ago, he took 3000 square feet in ABC Carpet & Home. (He already has two emporiums, one of them called Eccentricities, in his home base of London.) Recently, after settling into his three-level house in Cape Town, South Africa, Skeel set up a showroom on one floor to display ethnic African antiquities and colonial furniture. He opened with three nine-foot carved drums (above) positioned around a Cape Dutch armoire, primitive-looking African tables and wood chairs and armchairs upholstered with old French linens.
