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This Berlin villa’s layout and history have been completely reimagined by designer Fabian Freytag. Given total creative freedom, the designer infused every floor and room with bold colour. Each space features two complementary tones applied to walls, furniture, and even the ceilings. Inspired by Matisse and the 1920s, the ceilings now showcase striking geometric patterns that turn them into statement features. The result is a vibrant residence that blends the villa’s storied past with a fresh, contemporary spirit. Photos: Vincent Leroux & Kozy Studio.

Maison Leonard by Studio Zung feels like a calm, timeless escape in the middle of Tribeca. Blending warm minimalism with refined wabi sabi vibes, it offers four bedrooms, roomy living spaces, and sweeping 360-degree views of Manhattan. The design gently works with the building’s historic bones, using soft tones, inviting textures, and low-slung furniture to keep those skyline views front and center. Thoughtful custom pieces tie everything together with an easy, cohesive energy.

Photography by Adrian Gaut, Jonathan Hökklo.

Our clients purchased a beautiful family home on a dream lot in High Park and came to us to furnish it from top to bottom and renovate key areas. The completed space is a true celebration of furniture and decor as functional art and represents collaborations with artists around the world. The artist’s hand is seen in the subtle imperfections – from the rough edges of the powder room stained glass mirror, to the uneven surface of the ceramic shades on the entry sconces, to the bunching of fabric on each roll of the chaise lounge. These imperfections bring life to the pieces and are what makes the space feel so storied – because there are genuine stories. The result feels timeless, yet fresh. Highly curated, yet effortless.
Art this really is. Those rust coloured velvet sofas are giving me heart palpitations (I’m currently on the hunt for a new sofa…on that note if anyone local wants to buy my Freeform sofa hit me up!). Designed by Clare Forndran and Danielle De Francesco of Forward Interiors. Photos: Lauren Miller.

The property, originally purchased by the client’s grandparents after emigrating to Australia, forms part of a family compound spanning two neighbouring lots and housing three generations. Now under the client’s ownership, the home has been carefully restored and renewed as a lasting residence for future generations. Situated within a heritage overlay, the renovation honours the Edwardian villa’s original character and materiality. To the rear, a new living pavilion extends toward a bluestone laneway, its red brick and sawtooth roof inspired by nearby industrial buildings. Oversized timber doors and exposed rafters dissolve boundaries between the interior and the garden beyond. Abbotsford House by Melbourne-based MRHN Architects.

Photography by Stephanie Rooney.

Paola Moretti’s vision combines being both an interior designer with an artistic sensibility. Ranging from contemporary art to design, from cinema to fashion and architecture, from newly built to historic buildings through extraordinaries unexpected contaminations. Therefore she has established a fertile dialogue among past and future, old and new, ancient and contemporary. A constant exchange which enhances the identity of the space. Her goal or mission is to preserve the future. A personal, richly poetic and emotional vision of interiors, comprised of tradition, contemporaneity and worlds, in a timeless aesthetic journey because nothing is more contemporary than the eternal.