Vogue India July 2016

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“IT WAS LIKE

ARCHAEOLOGY...

WE STRIPPED AWAY

CEILINGS AND

PARTITIONS AND

FOUND

HIDDEN SPACES”

—RUBEN TOLEDO

The couple pulled

out the false ceiling

to expose the

distressed moldings

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