We live in contradictory times… Houses that want to look like hotels and hotels that feel like coming home – only better. And ‘La Favorita’ pension in Porto (Portugal), with interiors by French designer Sam Baron, might just be the best example of the genre yet.
I’m sure the owners of this Majorcan villa have TV somewhere in the house, but this room isn’t it.
Herringbone marble in Paris.
Shabby chic alla Milanese. This apartment in Lambrate is in one of the most culturally mixed quarters of Milan. A case of bringing the outside in, by the look of the interiors, and the keeping it real lack of pretension is refreshing.
Personal style abounds in Madrid.
The real deal. Piero Lissoni has designed the new Boffi showroom in Via Solferini to look and feel like a real apartment.
Seth Godin talks about finding your own brand essence, your own style, culture whatever you want to call it. And how if you have to search really hard you’re unlikely to find one. ‘Clothes don’t make the man’, he says, ‘the man makes the man’. Clothes simply amplify whatever it is you really stand for.
I’ve hung on to that idea all week. How it works when you swap ‘clothes’ for ‘interior design’. This Rome loft (the home of artist Valentina De Martini) feels like a case in point.
When, one day, I return to the lovely walled town of Lucca this apartment is where I want to live.
English Country goes minimal in Milan.
Sober, perfectly balanced New York decor breaks no new ground but ticks plenty of boxes.