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MODERN living

Growing up in Yorkshire in the mid-1980s Mark Hampshire and Keith Stephenson led parallel lives. ‘We never met as teenagers but we did all the same things. We watched 1960s films and went to junk shops. Our pocket money was spent on retro wire fruit bowls and painterly, mid-century curtains, which we’d turn into shirts for Saturday nights out,’ reminisces Keith. Their paths crossed in 1997 when they landed jobs in the

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