A Designers Edition Home
A compact canal-side apartment rebuilt with discipline—marble, velvet, leather panelling, and soft arches tied into one precise line. This is the studio’s control room: the designer’s own place. Edited, not decorated. Every move earns its keep.
The plan was stripped back and redrawn. Circulation simplified. Storage absorbed into the architecture. The language is tight—rounded openings, deep reveals, and a restrained palette that repeats from room to room so the apartment reads as one continuous piece.
Stone carries the weight. In the kitchen a block-like island and a full-height niche are wrapped in honed book-match travertine, heavily veined marble, edges are mitred, joints disappear into shadow. The island works like a table by day and a bar at night.
Across the living wall, a low fireplace in the same travertine stone runs clean and long, shelving above for objects and books. Metals stay warm, bronze and darkened brass so the room never feels cold.
Texture does the softening. Velvet upholstery in quiet, smoky tones; leather panelling to doors and closets for tactility and acoustic calm.
Floors are a variety of small/wide oak boards, rugs layered for depth rather than effect. Lighting is simple: trimless lines, track where needed, pinned accents for art.
At dusk the arches hold the glow and the apartment settles into itself.
Private rooms lean into material focus. The ensuite is a study in contrast: a monolithic pedestal basin carved from dark stone set against pale, linear slabs; a smokey glass screen, recesses cut exactly where hands reach. T
The powder room turns up the graphic note with dramatic “Calacatta Voiletta” marble and an arched mirror. Small space, big intent.
Art finishes the thought. Pieces from the designer’s own collection and art company are placed with purpose: a single punch of photography by the kitchen, tactile works stacked at the arches, ceramics along the shelf line. The palette takes cues from the art, not the other way around.
Nothing is left hanging. Skirtings step back. Hardware aligns to a grid. Junctions drop into shadow.
Every corner is resolved; every surface earns a touch. It’s a city gem! Compact, quiet, and highly tuned—built to live and to think in.
