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Spaces · built workHomes · Hospitality · Wellness

Every space, read through the body.

Two decades of homes, restaurants and salons, each shaped around how people actually feel inside them. Choose a system to see where we designed for it.

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SS-E-01 · Home · Pittwater, Sydney

Bayview Residence

A house built for rest.

Light on water, bare feet on stone, a garden to walk through and a room to fall asleep in.

RestWaterTouch
A hand reaching for a palm in a plaster niche

Niche and palm

Looking from a dark boathouse down a jetty to bright water

Boathouse to the water

A woman walking barefoot down a garden path

Barefoot garden path

A woman asleep under a plaster arch with fern wallpaper

Rest

A verandah framing the bay

Verandah to the bay

Leaf shadows across a timber floor

Leaf shadow

A plaster stair with a timber handrail

Stair

SS-E-02 · Home · Bondi, Sydney

Bondi Breeze

Light, filtered.

Breeze-block walls turn harsh coastal sun into soft, moving pattern. With Stafford Architecture.

LightAir
Breeze-block wall and timber door at the entry

Entry

A stair lit through a breeze-block wall

Stair through breeze block

A handrail with streaks of light

Handrail and light

Looking down a corridor under a reed ceiling

Reed corridor

Vessels under the shadow of a reed ceiling

Vessels, reed shadow

A chair and table from above with hard shadows

From above

SS-E-03 · Home

Happy Little House

Joy, designed in.

Colour, pattern, water and art: joy treated as a physical state a house can help create.

JoyWater
A spiral stair down to a round plunge pool

Plunge pool

A bath beside shutters and a paperbark tree

Bathing in the trees

A lemon tree and wall light in raking sun

Lemon tree, late sun

A courtyard dining room opening to the kitchen

Courtyard dining

A zellige-tiled kitchen seen straight on

Zellige kitchen

An entry stair under a skylight looking to the garden

Entry under the skylight

A carafe and glasses in sunlight

Afternoon light

SS-E-04 · Home

The Bantry Project

Materials that soften.

Plaster, reed, stone and timber that soften light, quieten sound and warm to the touch.

TouchSoundLight
A plastered courtyard with palms, arched mirrors and old terracotta jars

Courtyard

Looking down on a palm rising from a tiled courtyard floor

Palm, from above

Looking up a sculptural plaster stairwell to a skylight

Stairwell

An entrance hall under a reed ceiling

Reed ceiling

A vaulted room opening to a harbour

Open to the water

A plaster wall carved with arched niches holding terracotta vessels

Niche wall

A freestanding bath before an arched plaster niche of stoneware bottles

Bath niche

Water falling from a brass shower head beside a curved plaster wall

Water

An oak kitchen island under plaster arches with old terracotta jars

Kitchen

Amanda Talbot sitting on a rush bench in a vaulted plaster hallway

Amanda Talbot at Bantry

SS-E-05 · Hospitality

Bert’s

The long lunch as ritual.

Arrival by water, open windows and light off the harbour, paced to how a body unwinds.

ConnectionAir
A waiter resting on a fluted oak bar under a woven ceiling

Bar

Open casement windows above a set table

Open windows

Two hands touching across a table, in black and white

Touch

Two people arriving under a giant cactus and palm

Arrival

A backlit silhouette holding a wine glass, in black and white

Late light

An agave plant in sunlight

Agave

SS-E-06 · Hospitality

Fred’s

Gathered around fire.

An open hearth at the centre of the room: one of the oldest ways humans calm down together.

Connection
Two chefs cooking at an open fire beside a table of produce

The hearth

The dining room with a baker at the bench in window light

The room

An open hearth burning

Fire

A waitress coming down a stair past a wall of chopping boards

The stair

A bar with blue stools

Bar

SS-E-07 · Wellness · salon

Headcase

A wash as a ritual of water.

Designed around the moment the body lies back: soft daylight, green plaster and handmade vessels.

WaterRest
A green wash room under arched windows

Wash room

Circles of light reflected in facing mirrors

Mirrors

Handmade vessels above rolled towels on green plaster

Vessels

A reception desk of green mosaic and reeded glass beneath a woven tapestry

Reception

A stone basin under an arched mirror

Stone basin

A walnut chair by a window onto the street

Window seat

Film · A Day at Bayview · Architecture Walter Barda · Construction Touchstone Constructions · Interior design & styling Studio Snoop

In progress · private

The newest spaces are still being briefed. They stay private.

Biological Briefs for households and design teams are under way. We never publish who, where, or how many.

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