Half a World Away

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Starting from a shell, design entrepreneur Sophie turned her dark one-bedroom apartment in a 19th-century terraced house into a light, and tranquil urban retreat. For most of the year, home for Sophie is a rooftop apartment in hectic, colourful Yangon in Myanmar, where she collaborates with local artisans on designs for her homewares brand, Kalinko. But every few months she jumps on a plane, dons an eye mask, and heads back to her home from home, an apartment tucked in to the basement of a stucco-clad London townhouse.