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Susuru

“Less is more” is a common phrase in architecture and design, meaning less decoration has more impact. Mies van der Rohe popularized the expression to describe his modernist architectural approach, which distilled a building’s elements to extreme simplicity so that each served multiple visual and functional purposes.

Less is undoubtedly more at Susuru, but here the phrase can be interpreted in another way too – that it requires more effort to make

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