Simple and white, honest and stylish. Less house, more home. Part of The Porch Project with interiors by Anna Braund. What a lovely way to live.

I spent Friday daydreaming of a hotel in Paris. Today I’ve run away to Greece, to the island of Mykonos, to a beach club and restaurant that takes my breath away. Simplicity and beauty and luxury. A truly stunning location and a truly stunning complex. Scorpios Mykonos.

A new year stretches ahead and many of us face the “joy” of dragging ourselves into work on a weekend. Have no fear! There is a solution. A stylish design solution. Just make sure your workplace looks as cool as this office in an old studio in the Xth arrondissement in Paris. Agitateurs Graphiques by Agence Marie Deroudilhe.

Photos by Julie Ansiau.

Don’t forget the deadline for entry submissions to the A’ Design Award and Competition is  fast approaching. With over 100 categories the A’ Design Award and Competition is the world’s largest design competition. Imagine your work being recognized worldwide, your design front and centre before design companies and professionals. Entries will be judged by an international jury panel of scholars, professionals and media members and the benefits to the winners are inspiring. The trophy, of course, an invitation to the gala night, a certificate of quality, inclusion in the prestigious A’ Design Award and Competition exhibition and the yearly ResultBook but even more importantly press, PR, introduction to industry professionals and companies and international exposure.

You can find out more about the A’ Design Award and Competition here and register here. But hurry as entries close February 28. Results will be announced to the public on April 15. In the meantime here’s a little inspiration from previous winners.

Hiza-contemporary cottage Single family holiday house by Proarh

House for Installation Residence by Jun Murata | JAM

Grotto Sauna Freestanding Residential Sauna by PARTISANS

Almond Office of Architecture by Arturo Campos

AT WILL Residential house by TING-LIANG CHEN, SHIH-JIE LIN

the Light in the Bubble Lamp by Andrea Ciappesoni

Coexistence With Cats Residential House by Sohei Nakanishi

Calma Credenza by Ayça Sevinç Tatlı

Bessa Lounge chair by Simon Reynaud

Marken Desk Home Desk furniture by Claudio Sibille

This post is brought to you in collaboration with A’ Design Award and Competition

It’s almost like a drinking game. Colour blocking, dirty pastels, plywood, bedside pendant lights and coloured flex, retro furniture, cane mirrors and rooms with great French bones. Moroccan rugs, kilim chairs, sheepskins, leather gym pads as bedhead and indigo. Linen sheets, palm wallpaper, painted floors, tumbling block tiles and cane saucer chairs. Have we got all the trends covered? Who cares! I love it all! I want it all! Anyone else for a Parisian getaway to Hotel Henriette Rive Gauche?