Simplicity, balance, elegance and proportion. Shareen Joel and her design team take a multidisciplinary approach to their work. It’s just not interior architecture. Think creative branding management and product design even Shareen’s stint with Ford working on car design. The spaces here are clean and crisp. There is a form follows function, modern minimalist feel but these are not cold spaces. Natural materials or infusions of whimsical and personal touches warm the rooms. I’ve included some of SJD’s retail work as well. I always love checking out innovative retail and commercial spaces. I don’t know if it’s the industrial design influence or the interior architect one but the joinery details in SJD’s work give me goosebumps.

Hi everyone! Let’s start the week with great photos. Roo Way is primarily a lifestyle and product snapper but I love his interior shots. There’s a life to these shots, not static at all and that light just bounces. Now if I could just be inspired as much by his lifestyle shots I’d find myself hiking and biking next weekend!

WINKS – weekend links. Here we list what has come in during the week, things we’ve found and things we think you’ll want to see. If you’d like to see your blog or website featured email us and if we think it fits with our readers we’ll link you. So what’s in this week?

• Sexy legs! OMG what sexy legs. The House of Habit can take the simply beautiful to the sublime. Whether the same leathers as Prada uses, hand painted, metal or crystal encrusted they are pure luxury.
• Gorgeous home accessories from Danish label nord are now available at Le Souk. If you haven’t been to Danielle’s stylish webshop then you’re in for a treat. Based in The Netherlands Danielle ships world-wide. Too tempting! She has such a wonderful eye. Love it all.



• Normann Copenhagen presents the Mormor/Grandma series designed by Gry Fager. Inspired by textiles it’s a humorous and functional series just right for breakfast, lunch or for a picnic. Talk about granny chic. You can find it at Dansk Design.



• GSelect…. it’s supposed to be all about style for the boys but if minimalist, form follows function and drop dead gorgeous modern design ticks your boxes then there are plenty of luxury lovelies for you on this site.



• I’m smitten by Gesa Hansen’s current furniture collection “The Hansen Family”. Home grown wood, handmade furniture, new Scandinavian design. Love the desk! More here.



• Mesmerised by the photography of Myla Kent. Coloured smoke (incense) curling away. You’ll find them at her Etsy shop.

It’s the light. The relationship between the dark and shade, the bright sun slanting through a window. It’s a crispness that matches the crisp fresh rooms. Can you almost smell the bath salts, the flowers in the vase? It’s the earthy rich smell of polished wood and leather, the silence of a darkened room. Can you hear the wind in the fir trees? Feel the sun on your skin? All this from a simple image. All this from the work of photographer Trent Bell.

… or is it the fever? I have only just dragged myself out of bed where I have been moaning and whining about the flu that has kept me there for the last day. (I’m ugly when I’m sick!) Thankfully I have a well stocked file of fabulous houses I have been stalking for just such an emergency. My brain hurts too much to do this house justice but let’s just say I love it, from the white walls to that green cabinet and the artist’s attic. Sigh. I’m going back to bed. (Paddington, Sydney – link while it lasts.)