A jewel-box flat in Islington that goes big on de Gournay

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“It felt like decorating a doll’s house,” says Harald Donoghue, 38, of his small first-floor Victorian flat, whose quartet of rooms sit on a broad, tree-lined avenue in the Poets Road area of Canonbury, north London. “It’s a facsimile of the house I grew up in but with a strange sort of shrinkage.” Though it’s modest, the lofty ceilings lend the interiors…