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Cape Town-based magazine editor, stylist and interior designer Laureen Rossouw first saw this house over five years ago. She and her husband Koos were about to move out of their City Bowl apartment when she spotted a picture of a dilapidated house described as having “classic Bauhaus lines” in the newspaper. “I thought it might be a bad picture or wishful thinking,” Laureen explains, but she rapidly made her way to the house, which was in an ideal location in the suburb of Oranjezicht, on the edge of one of Cape Town’s most charming parks.

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