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LIGHTNESS OF BEING

nnu Nykänen and her husband Stefan Söderström had little reason to move from their central Helsinki apartment but just two blocks away an extraordinary opportunity arose. ‘An apartment came up for sale on Bulevardi. It’s one of the best-known streets in Helsinki,’ says Annu, who runs interior design firm Lova Co Interiors. ‘It’s in the middle of the city yet only a few hundred metres from the ocean. It also has a feeling of

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