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t’s impossible to ignore a highly architectural fireplace, so better to embrace it and create a scheme taking cues from the design. This fireplace for one of the apartments in Chelsea Barracks was designed by Squire & Partners using a series of linear steps in lieu of a surround. Interior decorator Charu Gandhi of Elicyon was asked to build a scheme around it. ‘The fireplace has a monolithic yet light quality to it, and it enhances the symmetry of this space,’ says Charu. ‘We played to this symmetry with the setting

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