Simon Mills

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Simon Mills

In partnership with R FindsA global traveller needs a world-class summer bag – or a whole series of bags – to call on for many and varied adventures. A roomy fabric tote is a go-anywhere companion, and perhaps a stealthy nod to environmental responsibilities – the simple cotton or nylon bag as a universal humble brag. A cross-body messenger or a backpack is for those who intend to explore their destination on foot (the same ones who have probably thought to pack for rain).

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Simon Mills

In partnership with EbaThe contemporary kitchen is the modern home’s theatre, communal hub and showpiece. Busy prep space and gastronomic testing ground meets smart storage facility and convivial social area designed for both practicality and pleasure. To ensure the correct and joyful function of the house’s most multitasking room, layout, footprint and architecture are carefully choreographed.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Simon Mills

There’s a scene in Edward Berger’s Oscar-winning film Conclave when hardliner Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) calls a meeting with liberal Cardinal Aldo Bellini (Stanley Tucci) for more cloak-and-dagger discussions around the successor to the recently deceased Pope. The conversation is held in a Vatican anteroom where the new pontiff's cassocks hang in state like a collection of couture gowns in a dead socialite’s grand, Upper East Side apartment wardrobe.

2 weeks ago | countrylife.co.uk | Simon Mills

There’s an old story about a hedge fund manager trying to woo back his doubting fiancée with pledges of a better life and higher times. The Mayfair money man tried all sorts of persuasive arbitrage: swanky dinners, Sloane Street frocks, silly money shoes and bling jewellery before eventually playing his ace card.

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Simon Mills

Imagine an HR Giger nightclub aboard Alien’s Nostromo, or Christopher Nolan’s Inception soundtracked with Sicario’s noises of clank and doom. Walls falling inwards like chromium dominoes, a mirrored ceiling rising from head-height to a dizzying, cathedral apogee. Multiple light shafts forming a white icicle forest, reflective tiles performing warped, digitally choreographed waves of discombobulation.