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“We also respect and honor the history of your home, celebrating its legacy while nurturing its future.”

It’s one thing to enforce contemporary needs on a historic home, demolish, reconfigure, makeover. It’s another to carefully bring it into the future while embracing its past like this classic Arts and Crafts house by Minneapolis-based Anne McDonald Design.

Oh the drama! Oh the theatre! Oh the inspiration! What else would you expect from Lyon-based designer Claude Cartier? A master of colour, texture and pattern his work may divide opinions but it is always on the cutting edge of design.

It’s light. It’s bright. It’s got that neutral colour palette. Natural materials, yes. A little less an eclectic mix of vintage and new, more the on trend rounded, organic shapes and bouclé, bouclé, bouclé. Equally sophisticated and stylish but completely different from the previous Madrid apartment. A fabuous Parisian apartment by Emmanuelle Simon. Which is your favourite?

With its restrained, neutral colour palette, eclectic mix of furniture, cool art and layer upon layer of texture this apartment by Madrid-based Estudio María Santos is sophisticated but not stuffy, stylish and welcoming. Think light flowing in through tall windows and a preference for natural materials like wood, stone metal and linen.

“The success of d’Estaville is an architectural response which suits contemporary living yet respects the significance of this Heritage Victoria listed dwelling. Contemporary design, including new furniture and lighting softens the grand scale of the original home and creates spaces which are comfortable and intimate.”

Sophisticated, über stylish and sympathethic with its rich heritage retained. And what’s lurking in the garden? Why an old air raid shelter converted to a wine cellar! d’Estaville in the Melbourne suburb of Kew by NTF Architecture. 

Photography by Tom Blachford