f I could live in a gallery I would,” says John Manos, who lives with his partner, interior designer Simon Kais of SKM Design Studio, in this third-floor apartment in Melbourne’s Toorak. Indeed, there are echoes of this desire in their home, with sculptures perched on plinths, oversize artworks spanning swathes of wall and paintings reaching nearly to the top of three-metre-high ceilings. While John, founder and managing director of creative agency MDM Design Associates, and Simon bought the boutique apartment, designed by Rob Mills of Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors, off the plan, they made
