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MADDISON APARTMENT BY STUDIO JOHNSTON

ome projects bring great challenges and, with them, the potential for great rewards. Stefania Reynolds – head of interiors and project director at Studio Johnston – faced the most demanding of clients in the design of Maddison Apartment in Sydney’s Surry Hills: her family. Like all good designers, she started the process with co-design. She asked her young son to draw what he wanted as a home. Before pen touched paper, Stefania was anxious that her son would depict a house with a gable-end roof, picket fence and garden, but, much to her surprise, he expressed home not as a

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