New Year’s has come and gone and everyone in London is exhaling after a long, busy season – not least Dan and Dean Caten. Flopped in the back of a slowmoving taxi en route to their Notting Hill home, they go over the events of the past few weeks in a stream of consciousness, finishing each other’s sentences without hesitation. In December, they had turned 50. Then, on Christmas Day, they hosted 150 Catenaccis – their very large Italian-Canadian family – at Casa Loma in Toronto.
“We completely restructured the building,” says Dan.
But “we didn’t touch the walls,” adds Dean. “We did a retrospective picture history of all the family.”
Dan: “We had 100 vintage Italian frames with old reprinted photographs,”
Dean: “ – in the beautiful oak hallway – ”
Dan: “ – with chandeliers …”
Before New Year’s Eve, th
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