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Kyra Bartley & David Collins

urniture gets handed on to friends. Clothes and books and other things do as well. It’s not too often, though, that a whole house gets passed around, but Kyra Bartley and David Collins’ place is such a beauty that, for the past 15 years or so, no one’s wanted to let go of it completely. “A friend of ours was living here, but when he headed over to London, he tapped me on the shoulder and told me the warehouse was coming up,” says animator Kyra Bartley. She and David, a photographer, hadn’t been long back from working in Cambodia and were looking to move out of their “crappy little terrace house” into something more interesting. “Before our friend lived here, another

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