David Clark spent a decade at the helm of Vogue Living, balancing business and creativity to create beautiful issues of the world-renowned magazine. Known for his great eye and curatorial skills, he's the perfect candidate to show us his week in pictures. His week combines a little international travel with the best Sydney has to offer.  



This is the landscaping at the gates to the Botanic Gardens on Art Gallery Rd. I love the planting, the colours and the textures. It feels to me like somebody has put a lot of thought into the composition here. I walk past this most days when I head down to the Boy Charlton pool.



This is not from my last week, but it is only from a couple of weeks ago when I was in Hawaii. It's the Pololu Valley at the north of the Big Island. Very beautiful. It's a good hike down into the valley and to a pristine black sand beach.



Tea for two in Hermes blue. The teapot was a gift from my team at Vogue Living when I left the magazine. It pours beautifully. The cups were from Hermes. I went to the launch of this collection in a Le Corbusier house on the edge of Paris a couple of years ago. I loved it. The blue is very vivid, and hand-painted onto fine porcelain.



These cane chairs were my pick at the recent Gatsby prop sale. There was a lot of stuff filling a huge warehouse space, but I thought these were the loveliest things there.



A collection of things on my desk at home. I've always believed it's worth getting art into solid and simple frames. The work at the bottom is by my friend Lionel Bawden, and I like the way the colours in it jar with the fluoro pink lacquer bowl.



These dhurrie rugs overlap on my floor at home. I bought them in the Rajasthani desert from a guy called Roopraj who made them with his wife, both sitting on the ground using an ancient hand loom that had been passed down his family line for generations. Every time I walk on them I see their busy hands and I can almost feel the hot desert sands underfoot.



I've always enjoyed the juxtaposition of these two black things in my apartment. The frames are part of a four-post day bed that was made by Tom Twopeny in Adelaide for a Vogue Living project and that I ended up buying. Very Japanese aesthetic in painted timber. The flourish beside it is Garland by Tord Boontje, one of last decade's most influential designers. It comes as a laser-cut flat piece of metal that you pull out and mess up as you like.



I was walking home from dinner one night and went past this fantastic window at Robby Ingham's on Oxford St in Paddington. Love how it looks like a spaceman in drag.



This is a page from a book I have called Costumes and Textiles of Royal India by Ritu Kumar. This is one of the plainer but very delicate pieces in it.



I've always felt comforted by the palm trees beside the modest neoclassical facade of the Art Gallery of NSW. It feels very Sydney. And I also enjoy the quirky, anglicised spelling of Michelangelo.