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Bookcase Study

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DESIGNER Spot Lab

LOCATION Brooklyn, New York

when you have to buy a commercial building to get a space large enough to make the custom millwork. That was what Tessa French and Zeb Burge, the couple behind design-build firm Spot Lab, found themselves doing in the spring of 2021 when they

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