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BEACH beauty

Never underestimate the potential of a well-filled skip: just ask Laura and Stuart Mckay, who began sourcing items for their beach-side home long before they found it. It wasn’t just demolition sites they trawled: some of their pieces enjoy a much loftier provenance, from the Folies Bergère, a cabaret music hall in Paris, to a Brad Pitt movie set. ‘We enjoy developing properties so there’s always an excuse to grab interesting pieces whenever we see them

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