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Comfort and joy

ANYONE around in the 1970s and 1980s may remember the highly inventive, full-throttle style of that era’s greatest interior-design practitioners, including David Hicks, Roger Banks-Pye, John Stefanidis and Tessa Kennedy, as well as the early work of Nina Campbell who is still at the height of her powers half a century later. In following decades, decoration with a capital ‘D’ never really went away, of course; it was simply never featured in the slew of new

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