About the project
Design Matter designed a private residence with a clean minimal aesthetic that also created a sense of luxury and warmth. The villa was brand new and built in a contemporary style. The challenge was to give it a personality unique to its inhabitants while keeping the design language of the community. The client has two young children whose needs and use of the formal areas had to be incorporated into the design while also providing them with other informal spaces to interact, as well as their individual private spaces. The design team had to re-purpose some of the client’s older furniture which had sentimental value. Blue Box Interiors implemented the fit-out requirements.
The main feature is the living room with its wooden panel flanking and monolithic block – a marble clad fireplace. The idea of a monolithic centerpiece is used throughout the home: for example, the dining (large mirror/TV wall) and the master bedroom (centerpiece headboard-and-room divider). To have an uncluttered space using simple geometry that has room to breathe. A space that raises people’s gaze to the client’s high standards, with an uninhibited display of the client’s personality. Simple yet carefully placed details that tell her journey being a collective expression of self. Amidst the simplicity, you find the accents which are a bold punch to the monotonous, the expected and the boring. It becomes a wink, a cheeky grin, that says “you didn’t see this coming”.
The main entrance is through a double-height foyer with a stairway on the left and a powder room to the right. The design team lined the entryway with a ledge console and under the stairway with a tray of pebbles to hold a circular brass sculpture. Drama and glamour was added to the powder room with a gilded acrylic panel that was backlit; stone and metal-coated mosaic around the mirror. The living room feature wall is a monolithic Portuguese marble block over a flameless fireplace; two panels of wood slats in random thickness backed with dark suede flank it. The adjacent wall is covered with textured paper and brass strips with a long low height cabinet for storage. The open kitchen/dining room needed to be formal yet available to the children to watch TV during meals. The design team divided the space with a wood and acrylic divider and moss boxes and hid the TV behind a large two-way mirror feature along the main wall. The stairs were covered in wood treads to warm the all white marble look of the space.
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