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Before & After: An Old Montreal Apartment Embraces Sharp Contrast—and a Surprise Sauna
La Firme designs a strikingly unconventional pied-à-terre to feel like “a tunnel transporting us to a new dimension.”
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Several years ago, Edward Brooke walked by a really cool truck parked on his street in Montreal. "It was this really beautiful, branded Grumman truck, and I just liked it, so I Googled the brand," says Edward, a Washington, D.C., native who moved to the Canadian city 15 years ago, and works in real estate management.
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Melissa Dalton
Dwell Contributor
Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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