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London CALLING

THE TOWNHOUSE IN LONDON where Kathryn Ireland now lives most of the time wasn’t originally part of her plan. “My sister and I were renovating my mother’s London home, which we’d recently inherited,” says the peripatetic designer.

“But then my childhood sweetheart reappeared in my life and asked, ‘Why are you thinking about that house when you could be working on mine?’”

So, as she often does, Ireland embraced the detour, curbed the momentum on her mother’s home, and smoothly turned her

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