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LEVEL BEST

Character apartments have their fine points and their foibles — that’s a given. For Daniel Varcoe, this reality hit home when he was trying to hang his larger works of art. “If you used a builder’s level, the work would be completely out of whack,” he says dryly. Better, then, to just hang them by eye.

The Carlisle building was constructed in 1912 on a prominent corner of Auckland’s CBD as a

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