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Cathy Hawker

Manifattura Tabacchi: 'I bought in Florence's mini-Kings Cross factory conversion — here's what it's like'

Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence - (Savills)

Mike Stiff is an architect with a passion for industrial design. His London home in Kew is in a factory that once made Christmas decorations, the London architectural practice he co-founded, Stiff + Trevillion, occupies part of a converted wallpaper factory in W9 and around 80 per cent of his professional work has been focused on repurposing industrial and commercial buildings into homes or offices.

Industrial space and how to adapt it for modern day use, is, he says, very much in his DNA.

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