A first look at India Mahdavi’s home in Arles

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Home used to be an abstract concept for the architect and designer India Mahdavi. Born in Iran, she experienced a nomadic childhood, growing up in academic centres — Cambridge in Massachusetts; Heidelberg in Germany and the south of France — in the wake of her Iranian father, who was an economist and political scientist. Eventually, the now-63-year-old settled…