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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.

“As we live and as we are, Simplicity – with a capital “S” – is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.” 
– Frank Lloyd Wright

This very minimal and almost spiritual home is about as simple as it gets, with arches that provide touches of drama and elegance. Designed by Mandy Graham.

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.

Two things about this Notting Hill artist studio that I must point out. 1 – Black walls win over white any day. 2 – If you are going to go minimal, do it like this. Earthy, edgy and textured. Saskia Blyth of Blyth-Collinson Interiors is responsible for nailing this space.