24/07/2026
Three materials, close up — read through what they do to light.
Ivory travertine covers the floor and climbs the walls in large vein-cut slabs, honed rather than polished. Honed stone doesn’t reflect light so much as hold it — a soft, even glow instead of a mirror. It grounds the space and gives it a quiet weight.
Woven cane, set into aged bronze frames, carries the texture across wardrobe fascia, sliding panels and the staircase balustrade infill. This is where light stops being flat. It filters through the weave, breaks into hundreds of small shadows, and moves across the floor as the day moves — the one material here that changes by the hour.
Aged bronze runs through as the connecting material — frames, handrails, console legs, hardware. It doesn’t shine so much as absorb light into its surface, holding it in a low, warm glow rather than throwing it back.
Together, stone holds the light, cane breaks it, bronze absorbs it — three different ways of composing the same atmosphere.