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Notes on materials, process and the decisions that shape a room. Written from the studio, for anyone who thinks seriously about interiors.

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Material Notes · March 2025

On travertine: why imperfection is the point

The voids, the fossils, the variation in grain — travertine is a material that records time. We use it precisely because it refuses to be perfect.

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Process
February 2025

The edit: why the hardest decision is what to leave out

Every project reaches a point where restraint becomes the primary act of design. What stays in the room defines the space far less than what doesn't.

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Staging
January 2025

The ten-day install: how we approach a market listing

Staging for a Dubai listing at the top tier of the market is a different discipline to interior design — faster, more editorial, and entirely about a specific buyer.

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Material Notes
December 2024

Aged plaster and what it takes to do it properly

Venetian plaster, tadelakt, limewash — each behaves differently and each requires a different hand. Notes from a year of working with three plasterers across two countries.

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Commission
November 2024

Studio 51: a brief portrait of a project

Business Bay apartment, 2025. The brief was to make a rented space feel owned — to produce calm without permanence. This is how we approached it.

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