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Creating cohesion

A wall of cream and black tiles in Camille Hermand’s library acts as a reminder of her home’s previous life. The building lies on a narrow side street in the Marais district of Paris and, built in 1870, it was originally the local dairy. Five years ago, Camille bought the ground floor shop space to use as the office for her architecture practice. Then, a year later, the flat upstairs came up for sale, so she moved in and lived

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