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’m excited about Christmas this year and intend to go full-on Nigella in the kitchen,’ says interior designer Christian Bense, talking in his refurbished fourth-floor apartment with views of the south London skyline. Last Christmas he and Matt Martin, who works in leisure retail, had just moved in with a few sticks of furniture so it was hardly cheerful. ‘A large portion of my family is German, so we’ll follow the tradition