Country Homes & Interiors

TREASURE TROVE

A love of Scandinavian design, both old and new, has been the catalyst for many of Minnie Craske’s life decisions – most significantly, her passion for sourcing and selling the most captivating Swedish antiques she could find. She sold small pieces in her three shops, and traded larger furniture by appointment at her former home, a Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

But seven years ago, a dramatic change in the fortunes of the high street, paired with soaring business rents,

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