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Inner calm

Interior designer Ali Ross will go to extreme lengths to procure a design piece that she has fallen in love with. To wit, two timber stools she bought in Amsterdam and carried as hand luggage in two separate trips back to London where she was living at the time. They now sit proudly in the c1889 home she shares with her husband Ben and sons Jasper and Felix.

It is typical of Ali’s uncompromising approach to interior design and architecture that have been her passion since she was young. A year spent in Denmark and later Japan,

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