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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

Why one TV and film costume designer left London for a 'rough around the edges' seaside town

Tailor and costume maker Thomas Von Nordeim with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola during the making of Megalopolis - (Handout)

The art of property buying often comes down to luck and good timing. And Thomas Von Nordheim’s decision to move from London to Kent could barely have been more auspiciously timed.

He and his husband moved to the coast just in time to be well settled into a newly renovated flat just before the pandemic began. And they missed both the mid-pandemic race for space, which saw seaside prices spike, and the dramatic increase in construction costs which would have impacted the work they have had done on their new home.

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