This shot from Scott Schuman takes me straight back to Italy, (where I’ve been hiding out for the last two months and) where they really know how to wear a scarf.
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I especially love the kitchen in this wonderful house in Puglia by architectural rising star Peter Pichler. Unpretentious, understated, yet brimming with style. And it works.
This room has lots of the things I like in an interior. Black window frames, white walls, touches of orange… and it’s in Sicily. Siracusa to be exact and anyone who’s lucky enough to have been there (or dreams of going one day) might now close their eyes for a moment and imagine the view.
I love the slightly disarming effect of a diminutive desk towered over by an oversized floor lamp in the Venice flat of artist Anita Sieff. The contents of the house finely balanced between the essential/functional and the composed, the eye of the artist is everywhere to behold (right down to the fringed linen handtowel). And yet nothing – to my mind at least – looks the least contrived.
With its air of a classic in the making, the new blue Bialetti Fiammetta (you can get it in mauve and green as well) has gone to the top of my wish list for Florence come January.
Cool and soft, Milan.
This house by the lake, with its elegantly frugal palette of materials, ultra simple layout and sparsely furnished rooms, does absolutely nothing to quell my dream of a place in Italy.
Good design is knowing when to stop.
