Peter Mikic Interiors

“Mid-century pieces fit so easily into almost every interior,” says London-based designer Peter Mikic. In the sun-filled kitchen of the Oxfordshire retreat he shares with his husband, Sebastian Scott, Pierre Jeanneret’s oak-and-rattan Chandigarh chairs, from the 1950s, and a pair of Paavo Tynell pendant lights bear this out. (The pendants, like the woven-reed-and-leather Tuareg rug underfoot, were found on 1stDibs.) “The simplicity and functionality of modernist furniture will never go out of fashion,” Mikic adds. Also always in fashion: taking design cues from nature, as he has done here, responding to Tom Stuart-Smith’s design for the gardens just beyond the kitchen’s sliding glass wall. The teak cabinetry, jazzy Paonazzo marble surfaces, brass detailing and massive raw-edged dining table, cut from a single slab of London plane wood, harmonize nicely with the exterior view — while the sun itself could be reaching through the oversize skylight to animate the blazing yellow Lacanche range.