Wealden Times | WT215 | January 2020 | Travel & Wellbeing supplement inside

Above: A collection of interior books tempt
you to linger on the octagonal landing
had seen on his visit to Versailles.
Alex agrees and says there is a similar
genre in his native Denmark, even
simpler. But while his national style may
have been a subconscious influence,
a much greater one is his voracious
consumption of interiors magazines –
particularly the American title Veranda.
“I saw a house in it from Georgetown,
Washington, which had exactly the feel I
wanted: light, big openings, vistas. I didn’t
want furniture clinging to walls, I wanted it
to be classic, contemporary, quite simple.”
This house certainly has the grand scale
of the houses featured in that magazine
and a masterful use of the symmetry,
which is a recurring theme of upscale
American interior design.
Another detail which makes this space
so chic is the underfloor heating. “It means
there are no radiators intruding into the
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