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    Savoir flair

    May 27, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS TIM RICHARDSON
    PHOTOGRAPHS CLAIRE TAKACS

    James Basson is a designer best known to British garden-style watchers as the winner of the best in show award at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2017. That is because nearly all of his work to date has been achieved on the French Riviera, where he is based. James and his wife, Helen, moved to the area and set up a practice in 2000, and have very much made it their home. Neither has French lineage, though James spent time during his

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