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HOUSES Natural textures, GARDENS Exotic planting DECORATING It’s all a
antiques and incredible paint and breathtaking sea views matter of scale and elegant
fnishes give the interior of bring a sense of the Italian colourways for the latest
this new-build home a very Riviera to this magical generation of fashionable Cover photograph
catherine gratwicke
personal feel (page 98). Cornish garden (page 104). ginghams (page 134).

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