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What A two-bedroom Victorian conversion

Where Edinburgh

Interior design Ian Smith

Don’t talk to Ian Smith about trends: they don’t excite him. “I don’t like fashion, I don’t like gimmicks, and I don’t like themes,” says the interior designer, who learned his craft in the 1990s under the tutelage of the late – and legendary – Jimmy Thomson, co-founder of what was then one of Scotland’s most illustrious interior design firms, AF Drysdale. “At Drysdale, everything was always designed to last for the next twenty years, which is something that has stayed with me. I like being able to walk into projects I worked on a couple of decades ago and find they are still relevant today.”

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