This house arrived with strong bones and an interesting art collection. The brief was to build an interior around both.

That meant starting with what was already there — reading the architecture, understanding the collection, and making decisions that served both without competing with either. The art led the palette. The scale of the spaces led everything else.

Where furniture was needed, it was built to fit — sized and specified to hold its own against double-height rooms and bold walls of glass and steel. Where colour was needed, it was lifted directly from the work on the walls.

There’s a particular satisfaction in working with a house that already has something to say. When the architecture is this considered, it raises the bar for every decision that follows — and that’s genuinely exciting to design around. The challenge isn’t creating something from nothing — it’s knowing how to add to something that’s already beautiful.