Every evening, she concludes her day with a ritual: scrolling through auction listings before bed. She's looking for something specific, though she can't always pinpoint what. A chair with uneven stitching. A table with small marks worn into its surface. Objects that carry, in their imperfections, the evidence of a life lived.

"I love spotting pieces that aren't perfect," she says. "You can tell someone really thought about it, worked on it, maybe even made a mistake along the way. It's fascinating to me." Sometimes she buys something without knowing where it will go. That uncertainty, she says, is part of the pleasure, letting a piece find its own place over time.

Her home reflects this sensibility in every room. Considered, but never constrained by meticulous curation. Personal without being overly precious. The bookshelf has been thoughtfully arranged, each title and object placed with intention. Yet the corners are where life unfolds in all its spontaneity, a jacket folded over a chair, things landing where the day takes them.

Simone approached the space as a blank canvas, led by colour as mood, each room in conversation with the next. "I'm very conscious of creating a subtle thread that runs throughout a home," she explains. "So even if the tones shift, there's always a dialogue between them. Colour sets the emotional temperature for me." From there, larger pieces found their place: a vintage dining table, a worn dresser, a sculptural sofa, each one anchoring the room and playing into its mood. Then, layer by layer: texture, art, the collected and the found. "That's when a space truly becomes alive," she says.

Materials, too, are approached through a practical lens. A sofa has to be somewhere you can curl up barefoot without thinking twice. A chair has to earn its place through use. There's a love of contrast here as well, something soft like bouclé or brushed wool paired with something more raw: wood, linen, metal. "That mix makes a space feel layered and interesting," she says. For Simone, beautiful things have to be lived in. Things that looked right but felt wrong have been replaced. Every new object must pass one simple test: could it find its place in the next home? Would it still feel like hers?

With the arrival of her daughter, the rhythm of the home shifted. Vases moved to higher shelves, the floor opened up for play, and a new rule took hold: tidy when you're done. "I don't want her to feel like she can't move or play," Simone says, "but I also don't want to lose the things that make the apartment feel like me." Motherhood, perhaps unexpectedly, only deepened her relationship with the space, keeping some corners calm enough to breathe in, while letting the rest remain flexible. "It's all about balance. Letting her explore and play, while maintaining a sense of calm and rhythm in the everyday."

What comes through, in both Simone's home and her thinking, is a genuine ease with imperfection, an appreciation for objects that show their history of use. The uneven stitch, the subtle mark, the sense that something has been lived with. This way of living feels aligned with the ethos of our Spring Summer 2026 Collection, an exploration of the composed and the imperfect, finding beauty in the enduring qualities of crafted objects that carry marks of touch and time.