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Coastal comforts

LOSE your eyes. Can you taste the salty mist? Feel the dewy texture of your skin? See children catching fireflies in jars and loving the sweet burnt-sugar of toasted marshmallows… These are the things I imagine when designing for coastal areas. Total and utter relaxation. Lazy days of messy linen sheets; long hours

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