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Lisa Perkins & Michael Brady

“I particularly collect stuff I remember I didn’t have as a kid – some of the games and things like that.”

LISA PERKINS BEGAN COLLECTING WHEN she was a child, and has never stopped. It started with an Avon bubble bath container in the shape of a Japanese doll, which she still has. Michael Brady describes the place Lisa lived in when they first met as “very cluttered”; she prefers to say it was “carefully curated”.

Luckily, their aesthetic is totally in line. “I grew up addicted to TV shows like ,” says Lisa. “My favourite era is between 1965 and 1975. I’m not an obsessive collector, it’s definitely driven by sentimentality – I particularly collect stuff I remember I didn’t have

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