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Cottage INDUSTRY

In 1979, a young Vogue journalist drove out of London in her Citroën 2CV to work on a photoshoot with then Vogue art director, Barney Yan. That young journalist was Christina Strutt, who was just 25 years old at the time and was taken by Barney, after the shoot, to meet his friend Mark Strutt, who lived nearby. “That was the first time I met Mark and saw the cottage,” she says.

The cottage is a sixteenth-century former mill house, boasting the beautiful soft, honey-coloured hues

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