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    Tailored TO PERFECTION

    Aug 07, 2019 4 minutes
    FEATURE JOHANNA THORNYCROFT PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL

    The catalyst for Jane Whitfield to put her Ladbroke Grove flat on the market and hunt for a bigger property in London was adopting a son and, therefore, also making a career change. “I was in the process of adopting my son Alexei [now 10 years old] from Russia and planning to work from home,” she explains. “I wasn’t aiming for quite such a large space, but when I saw it, all 4,000 square feet plus, even on a very cold and miserable winters day, I had to have it.”

    What Jane had found was a large apartment occupying the

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