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HENRI SAYES

Your first home, Truss House, won a Resene Total Colour Award in 2014, with a mix of warm, dusky colours juxtaposed with white walls, punctuated by playful bright elements. Tell us about your colour selection process.

Every project has a tone, in the sense that it has a material palette and a design language, and an environment that it exists within.

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