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ROWEN & WREN

Lucy Uren and Graeme Purdy founded Rowen & Wren in 2011 after they couldn’t find the ‘updated classics’ they were looking for. Working from their then cramped one-bedroom flat, which acted as HQ, warehouse and shoot location, the partners in both business and life created an online catalogue of ‘timeless’ pieces inspired by textile designer Lucy’s ‘natural gravitation towards collections of old stuff, from sherry glasses to mantle vases,’ she says.

‘At the time there wasn’t much representation of beautiful old products being updated in new finishes that could be

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