Notes on materials, process and the decisions that shape a room. Written from the studio, for anyone who thinks seriously about interiors.
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.
Read the piece →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.
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.
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.
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.
Material details, site progress and the occasional behind-the-scenes moment, shared on Instagram between the longer pieces.
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