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GRAPHIC REDESIGN

Every so often Alexandre Liaume opens his front door to find people dressed in leather jackets picnicking across the road or taking selfies on the doorstep. Very occasionally a guitarist serenades him from the street or someone peers through the letterbox. Luckily, though, these incidents are rare and Alexandre takes it all in his stride. It’s the legacy of living in an apartment once rented by The Libertines’ frontman Pete Doherty. ‘It adds to the history and character of the place,’ Alexandre says.

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