Inside the private art collection of Drake Hotel Properties curator Mia Nielsen

As the Drake’s curator, Mia Nielsen is always thinking about guests when she selects art for the the hotel, Devonshire, One Fifty and Commissary. But at home, she uses her private collection to tell her own story. “At The Drake, I always think about what other people are thinking,” she says. “Here, I lovingly don’t care.” Her Seaton Village apartment is filled with roughly 80 works. Here are some of her favourites.

Here’s the southwest corner of her kitchen:

This is a table on the second-floor landing:

Here’s one wall of Nielsen’s bedroom:

And another, sparklier bedroom wall:

Here’s another part of the second-floor landing:

This is Nielsen’s writing desk, in the living room:

Nearby, there’s this cluster of works:

And another corner of the living room, with a mixture of postcards, illustrations and one-off pieces:

The last wall of the living room: