
When British global luxury PR consultant Alice Ryan had the chance to modernize her childhood home – a two-bedroom Edwardian townhouse in a leafy London suburb – she called on friend and client Michael Aiduss, an interior designer based in New York.
‘I was incapable of imagining the layout in any other way than how it already existed,’ says Alice. When Michael suggested they establish a more organized floor plan – enlarge the kitchen, move fireplaces, and align doorways to improve the flow between rooms – ‘I couldn’t visualize it,’ she says.