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All Together

WITH A RESOURCEFUL EYE and a flair for decorating, bowerbirds marry beauty and functionality with aplomb. Tess Twigden possesses a similar knack, though her foraging typically takes place on Instagram rather than the forest floor. Based in Ashbourne, South Australia, the photographer and owner of Bowerbirds Vintage has a passion for sourcing second-hand treasures that permeates the home she shares with husband Tom, 36, a firefighter with the Metropolitan Fire Service, and their daughters, Marlowe, seven, and five-year-old Mae.

An hour’s drive south-east of Adelaide, on the traditional lands of the Ngarrindjeri people, the timber and rammed earth home

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