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CHARACTER BUILDING

A feast for the eyes, this Galway city residence – an amazing project suspended between history and modernity, conceived and realised by Kingston Lafferty Design – is a never-ending surprise. ‘Today it’s a family home for husband, wife and five children, the very epicentre of a hectic and bustling family life,’ says Róisín Lafferty, founder and creative director of the Irish studio that works internationally.

Built in the 1860s, this

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