Leo's Room Was Designed Before He Owned a Single Piece of Furniture

That level of intention is worth pausing on. Plenty of people care about how their space looks. Fewer care enough to model it before they move in. The difference isn't perfectionism. It's that for Leo, the room was never just a backdrop. It was something he was building toward.

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Leo is a videographer based in London, and his eye for composition shows in how he thinks about a room. Not as a collection of objects, but as something with atmosphere, proportion, and intention behind every decision. The Pimlico apartment that became the subject of his short film wasn't styled for camera. It was lived in, deliberately. The blue-framed mirror he painted himself. The vinyl wall arranged as a grid. The speakers positioned like furniture, not equipment.

That standard applies across every sensory layer of the room. Leo pairs music and scent the way you'd pair wine with food. Lately: Ryo Fukui's jazz piano with Tom Ford's Oud Wood. The combination isn't random. It's composed.

He's recently moved out of Pimlico to a neighbourhood in London he'd long wanted to live in. The new place is a loft, significantly smaller, and the challenge has shifted. It's less about which objects belong and more about how to define different functions within a limited area. The curatorial instinct is the same. The constraints are new. That's a different kind of design problem, and Leo is approaching it the same way he approached Pimlico: with a plan before the furniture arrives.