hen antiques collector, décor-shop owner, interior decorator and lover of all things vintage Lynda Gardener first walked through the doors of an old mattress factory in North Fitzroy, a ‘gritty’ inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, it was not a pretty sight that greeted her. Wires hung from the roof, buckets were needed to catch the dripping water where the roof had partly caved in, cracked old concrete floors were covered with oil stains from the site’s former incarnation as a vehicle repair yard, and the rear of the building was a
