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This small courtyard garden in Melbourne’s South Yarra illustrates perfectly why I love Eckersley Garden Architecture‘s work so much. Heavily planted and lush while providing the practical needs of inner city living. Somewhere to sit and entertain or contemplate, passages to move from one spot to another in style and all important views from the inside out. Who wouldn’t want to work at that computer with that outlook?

When the view is this amazing all you can do is frame it perfectly. Understated yet full of impact this Dromana, Victoria garden is by award-winning Nathan Burkett Landscape Architecture.

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.

Take oak cabinets in a grain-visible paint finish, tall Shaker units and a wrap-around white quartz worktop and you have a striking, contemporary riff on the classic Shaker style. Stamford by Brit based Naked Kitchens.

Polished and refined, yet casual and livable. This gorgeous 900 sq ft, Greenwich Village apartment with 13 ft ceilings is owned by Gil Shafer of G.P. Shafer Architect. When Gil first purchased and guy-renovated this parlor floor apartment in Greenwich Village over 20 years ago, he conceived every architectural detail as though it were in an original 1840s Greek Revival townhouse. Two stately ionic columns and a custom designed scaglolia mantelpiece define the living room, echoing the Greek Revival moldings, custom-patinated brass hardware, and hand-painted, faux-grained mahogany doors throughout the residence. The latest reimagining of the apartment reflects a nuanced, subtly contemporary aesthetic that fits seamlessly within the traditional, largely-unchanged envelope. Neutral fabrics mixed with antique textiles and a graphic, black and white Iranian flatweave carpet add an unexpected spark to the more refined period details.