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REFINED EDGE

When Melbourne designer Fiona Lynch was called in to give small “uplift” to the sub-penthouse of a St Kilda Road apartment block, circa 2010, she worked such transformative magic that the minor commission ballooned into a major correction of the home’s entire high-rise aesthetic.

Yes, developers typically defer to the non-prescriptive and plain in account of the “average” off-the-plan purchaser, sighs the interiors virtuoso of first scoping an apartment that said nothing about the vibrancy of her clients. Though retired, the owners were still heavily invested in

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