It’s a Park Avenue apartment but loosened up. Not your typical over tweaked, over stuffed, over styled, karate chop designer pad. Simplified, formality removed, family friendly, relaxed. An oasis of calm in the maddening Big Apple. By multi disciplinary design practice De-SPEC.

This dining room brings a smile to my face. Don’t you love it when that happens? By interior decorator and stylist Marion Alberge.

The flexible design of the space within this London home allows it to be used by in a number of ways by family members. A pied-à-terre at one end with loft bedroom, turn another way, open the doors and now a three bedroom flat. The folding screens providing privacy to the loft are polycarbonate. A modern redesign with elegant Victorian proportions by VW + BS Architecture and Design.

I do. I love you David Ross. Everything you photograph makes my heart sing.

It’s modern. It’s concrete and glass, metal and timber. It’s a series of blocks and voids. It’s solid yet light and it sits proudly under an old fig tree next to neighbours steeped in history. It’s the Paddington Residence by Brisbane based Ellivo Architects.