MILIEU

Outside the Box

“If you give children a beautiful place to live in, they grow to appreciate beauty and learn to respect it.” —Kimberly Renner

THE ABANDONED OFFICE BUILDING sat empty for years at a busy downtown Austin intersection. Built in the 1960s, the boxy, three-level, red brick structure was occupied by a long succession of tenants, the last of whom left—or fled—under cover of night, taking hard drives and leaving everything else behind.”

“And I do mean ” says the building’s owner, noted Austin-based antiques dealer and designer Kimberly Renner. “In its last incarnation,

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