In the exclusive costal enclave of Pearl Beach north of Sydney is a fabulous modern take on the beachside holiday home. I am real estate stalking amongst the trees just back from shore. This family home is relaxed and stylish without relying too much on the coastal cliché. A muted sandy palette, floors forgiving of trekked in sand and grubby kids and dogs, swim suit friendly spots to collapse in after a hard day in the surf and a roof top spa and hang out that is seriously giving me a case of envy. If this was my holiday home I’d be moving into it all year round… just have to find the money to buy it. Link here while it lasts.

Comfortably luxe. Casually elegant. Sumptuously stylish. It’s layers of luxury and a true insight into living the fine life. foley & cox create homes (and yachts and planes… no trains and automobiles yet) that are aspirational, inspiration and just damn gorgeous. Highly individualised interiors for those with the need for the best. (See more in a previous post here.)

There is a bi-continental style to interior designer Patrik Lönn‘s work. His Swedish roots are evident but this US style shines through. With offices in New York and Stockholm Lönn’s designs are tailored and masculine, elegant and dark with layers of texture and exquisite materials. Timeless design with a carefully curated mix of classicism and modern luxe.

I find myself drawn to the familiar, the homes that I knew and loved as a child but never had. When I was growing up the traditional Queenslander house was enclosed and clad, old timber windows wrenched out and replaced by aluminium sliders. Their weatherboard exteriors were clad in faux brick or worse and verandahs encased in coffins of asbestos sheeting. Kitchens were kitted out in the latest 70’s mustard and brown while bathrooms were painfully bright blur of blue or green laminates. History was rewritten and lost. Slowly these old girls are being restored and if they are really lucky they are returned to their easy, breezy elegance, not modernised and streamlined with historical facades but impossibly futuristic interiors. Hopefully they are restored to casual beauties like this home currently for sale in Kangaroo Point in inner city Brisbane. A lovely old lady ready for her next 100 years. Link here while it lasts.

Telling a story, conveying a dream, aspiration, inspiration and creating rooms we all covet. A stylist weaves their magic with material objects in spaces real or not but once the photographer snaps the image then the make believe, the would be, the zhushed or preened is real, just what we wanted but never really knew we did. Welcome to the portfolio of stylist Camilla Krishnaswamy.