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

By Vibhu Gairola| Photography by Brittany Carmichael
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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:

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

 

This is a table on the second-floor landing:

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

 

Here’s one wall of Nielsen’s bedroom:

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

 

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And another, sparklier bedroom wall:

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

Nearby, there’s this cluster of works:

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

 

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

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

 

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The last wall of the living room:

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

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