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GEORGIAN REVIVAL
When Hong Kongbased architect Roderick Murray and his partner, Joyce and Lane Crawford president Andrew Keith, set out to purchase a property in their native Scotland, they had one goal in mind—to create a home. They found the ideal space, a 200-year-old Georgian house with a Grade A heritage listing, in Edinburgh’s New Town, a Unesco World Heritage area.
“We fell in love with the place when we saw it. It’s a grand Georgian townhouse without being too grand,” Murray recalls.
The property, like many of its kind, had been converted into offices. However, the original structure and many of its features, including decorative plasterwork, were preserved behind boards and under carpeting.
“They boarded up the floors, boarded over the fireplaces, boarded up the doors,” Murray says, “so it was…
