I’m taking the day off today. I hope you are too Kim. It’s the start of the Easter holidays. A sombre day for some, the slowest day of the year for others and the start of a chocolate filled long weekend for yet more. I had to drop in and share at least one beautiful picture though. I couldn’t help myself. Something to tie you over until tomorrow. I love this room. I love this photograph. I found it in the amazing portfolio of the photographer duo Floto+Warner.

The power of simplicity. Photography by Zach DeSart.

The renovation of this Art Deco penthouse apartment at Bondi Beach, Sydney opens the interior to an external courtyard and delineates internal space by a series of joinery walls. The new sits lightly within the historic shell with period features remaining intact while modern considerations are addressed and sinuous curves touch lightly on Art Deco angles. A cool, hip pad within a classic old apartment. By Marsh Cashman Koolloos.

Like a summer breeze or sailing on the ocean. Clean, crisp and cool. Blue. Not everyone’s first choice for their living and dining areas but these rooms by JHL Design are like a breath of fresh air.

An Italian idyll, a rural reverie, an historic farm house surrounded by olive groves. Could the daydream be more perfect? It could if the interiors are designed by Alexander Waterworth. Rustic and refined, rough and luxe, indulgent and spartan. Masseria Petrarolo in Puglia. Beauty in stone.