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My obsession with art and design inspired me to pursue Interior Designing after my Post - graduation in Earth sciences just to brush up my creativity and thus learning functional design techniques. But I BELIEVE just learning How-To-Design is not enough. Space should be ecologically sound at-least to some extent, And that's where Obsidian Space came up.
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