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Used décor adds instant history to the home
Not only do young people seem awfully quick to get themselves to market these days, many also appear exceptionally adept at reading and responding to exactly what that market wants in the moment.
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Take freelance designer Larisa Mancini, who just turned 25. The idea of an online décor shop only formed earlier this year, as she and her partner furnished a new apartment.
“With Covid, we ended up looking at online furniture reselling sites, and vintage accounts.” Even after her own pad was furnished, Mancini kept on “finding amazing pieces, and felt inclined to share them with people.”
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Author of the article: Vicky Sanderson
Publishing date: Apr 07, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read • Historical timbers warm up a contemporary kitchen. Photo by Photo Ryan McDonald
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Many of the century-old structures that formed the backbone of Chicago’s River North neighbourhood have long been replaced with steel and iron columns, making it fairly unusual to find an apartment with 100-year-old original timbers and floors. To find two in the same building is especially uncommon.
But it was just such a rarity that architects at Moss Design were asked to combine it into a 2,200-square-foot loft for a Chicago trader, family therapist, and their toddler.