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Full interiors
A house or an apartment, from the first day in the rooms to the last cushion. Design fee fixed at the start; the build costed openly.
Services
Residential · Hospitality · Furniture
Rooms that hold the light.
An interiors atelier of four. We take on four houses a year and a handful of rooms, and we make the furniture for most of them ourselves.
InteriorsFurnitureLightingJoineryLimewashSince 2012
We start with where the light falls at four o'clock.
Every project begins with a day in the rooms before anything is drawn — which walls the afternoon reaches, where people actually sit, what the house was before it was decorated. The plan that follows is a plan for light and material first and furniture second. Most of that furniture we make: a workshop of two joiners under the studio, a lighting maker we have worked with for a decade, and a plasterer who does nothing but limewash. Four houses a year is what that allows. It is enough.
- Four full houses a year, a few single rooms, two hospitality projects at most.
- Furniture, joinery and lighting drawn by us and made within thirty miles of the studio.
- A fixed design fee agreed at the start; the build costed openly, with no margin on trades.
Material first. Furniture second. Objects last, and few.
The order every room here is made in.
02What we do
Four ways in
Most projects are the first. The other three are how the first one gets made.
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Furniture and joinery
Tables, beds, wardrobes and kitchens drawn for one room and made in the workshop under the studio. To order, eight to ten weeks.
Commission a piece
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Lighting
A lighting plan for a whole house, and the fittings themselves — pendants, wall lights and lamps made with the maker we have used since 2014.
Lighting
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A single room
A bedroom, a bathroom, a study. Three weeks from the visit to the drawings, and the same care as a whole house.
One room03In depth
The Limewash House
A house that had been decorated four times in thirty years and had lost track of its own light. Everything came off the walls; limewash went on; the furniture was made for the rooms it stands in.
- Client
- A Georgian townhouse, Bath
- Industry
- Residential
- Size
- Five floors, eleven rooms
- Duration
- Fourteen months
- Services
- Full interior, furniture, lighting
- Pieces made for the house
- 22
- Limewash tones
- 4
- Recessed lights
- 0
The rooms
Tall, north-facing on the street side, with a garden elevation that catches the afternoon. Thirty years of papers and paints had made every room the same weight. The clients wanted quiet, and a house that would still look right in twenty years.
What we did
Stripped back to plaster and re-skimmed by hand. Four limewash tones across the house, each chosen for the way its room takes the light. Oak floors sanded and soaped rather than replaced. Twenty-two pieces of furniture drawn for the house and made in the workshop, from the kitchen to the beds. A lighting plan of forty fittings, none of them recessed.
What happened
The house was photographed for a magazine and the clients declined; it was their house. Two rooms have been changed since, both by them, both in keeping. The joinery has needed nothing.
The first evening, we sat in the drawing room with no lamps on and watched the wall change colour for an hour. That was the brief, and they heard it.
- 48
- Houses since 2012
- 400+
- Pieces of furniture made
- 30mi
- Every maker within
- 4
- Houses a year, no more
04Clients
In their words
Next availability
Booking from March.
Four full interiors a year, two furniture commissions a season. The first conversation is an hour, in your rooms, and costs nothing.
Residential and hospitality. Furniture and lighting to order.