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Driving with SWEE LIM

SWEE LIM is one busy bee. Quite serendipitous then that she is humming around a Richard Stringer sculpture of said insect lying on a miniature building. “I love this piece! It’s sculptural and over-scaled within an architectural format, yet quirky,” says Swee. The piece somehow embodies her: she’s a professional, punctual, perfectionist – and playful. In her business, Swee Design, she is creating a buzz with memorable and meaningful spaces in her selection of furniture, art, sculpture and objects.

“Art is more than decorative; it’s thought provoking. It brings in energy and changes the way we engage emotionally and spatially with a room. It’s an integral part of my work,” says the Melbourne-based designer who is mother to Charlie and Mimi, herself an 

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