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Space odyssey

A minimalist backdrop provides the perfect canvas on which to showcase a well-travelled couple's eclectic collection of art and artefacts, writes Viv Jones

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It was the efficiency of the space that attracted Clive Andrews and his partner to their 1,000 sq ft flat in Conduit Road. 'That and the fact that the flat is very bright. It's not overshadowed by tall buildings - although there are some around us, they are not in close proximity. We even have a partial harbour view.'

What is now an open and airy two-bedroom apartment was once a cramped three-bedroom flat with a tiny kitchen and faux wooden flooring.

'There were basically too many walls for the size of the place,' Andrews says. 'The windows and frames were dark brown, which made it look even smaller: too many lines.'

Their brief to designer Mark Le Feuvre was to create a bright, open-plan living/kitchen space for entertaining.

'They wanted a study that would accommodate guests, somewhere to show their collection of art and, of course, storage, storage and more storage,' Le Feuvre says.

'We wanted an open, modern space that wasn't clinical,' Andrews says. 'We wanted a fairly blank canvas upon which we could hang the stuff of our lives. And we had a lot of stuff - art, furniture, objects - we had collected over the years. Much of it was old, antique-like, ethnic, but we didn't want the space to look like a museum. We wanted something fresh and contemporary that also felt homely.'

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