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Contemporary art contrasting with original midcentury design pieces, mixed with bespoke pieces. Add in original features such as elaborate cornices, wall panelling and tile, highlight all with soft light filtering through floor to c ceiling windows and what do you get? Gallery? Home? Perhaps both. Barcelona II by Miquel Alzueta.

The perfect white backdrop accented by pops of gold. Light bouncing off mirrors. Dashes of black for contrast and texture, layers of subtle texture. A sophisticated home with a touch of the Parisian panache in Brooklyn. Fenimore Flat by Shelby Girard.

Photography by Morgan Levy

It’s an exercise in volume with the space designed as a single room without the doors or separations. It’s an exercise in public and private, a promised glimpse, a quickly barred shutter. It’s an exercise in the elegant purity of a minimal palette. Most of all it’s an exercise in fabulous French taste. Appartement Rue Etienne Marcel in Paris, France by Atelier du Pont.

Photography by Vincent Leroux and Manuel Zublena

Or so James Herriot said. Ever since I saw this sun porch by Jane Hallworth I have been daydreaming, or should I say scheming, of achieving a similar space at my home. A fabulous, eclectic mix of furniture, texture and plants. An oasis in a time of chaos and crisis.