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Past and Presence

 What was once the height of fashion is, sooner or later, not. That was the case with this handsome 1880s Lincoln Park greystone, which had gotten a very of-the-minute redo in the 1990s. “It was all bleached wood and stainless steel,” recalls designer Julia Buckingham, who spent years turning the place around

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