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COOL, CALM & COLLECTED

The soft tones of a Vermeer painting were the inspiration behind the Sydney family home reimagined by design duo Gillian Khaw and Tania Handelsmann of Handelsmann + Khaw. ‘Our client is English and she requested an interior that reminded her of home,’ says Gillian. ‘Having lived in London myself, I wanted to capture a sense of its atmospheric, dusty light, which can be difficult to pull

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