(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)For co-founders Arabella Maza and Stephen Maginn, the project was guided by a wish to preserve the apartment's early twentieth-century bones while layering in contemporary interventions. (Image credit: Enric Badrinas)(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)At the heart of the plan sits the kitchen – our favourite space. (Image credit: Enric Badrinas)(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)It would have been easy to overplay the contrasts – forcing the floral armchair against shiny metal, or leaning too nostalgic with the buttery yellow walls. Instead, this is an apartment that knows exactly when to make a statement and when to step back – making it, in our estimation, very close to perfect. (Image credit: Enric Badrinas)(Image credit: Enric Badrinas)