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カルデバイ社のホーロー浴槽とモザイクタイルで仕上げた在来浴室、天井は外壁と同じレッドシダーで仕上げた。 洗面台はステンレス製の製作物。

Photography by Andrew Hyslop

White lustre walls and white polyurethane finishes are the main order of the day throughout the living space broken only at the vaulted veneer wrapped door portal which is the entryway to bedrooms. Colorful furnishings, accent lights, carefully selected and sourced art and textiles add eclectic flavour to the light scheme. Each piece of furniture is customize to size, specifications and details and lends a unique character to the overall spaces making a strong statement. Lighting design: Vis a Vis India Prashant Bhat

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A formidable pallet of Asian style plant species along with traditional bamboo construction and meandering stone and gravel pathways.

Oliver Chung, Ting Chung

Our brief was to create a calm, modern country kitchen that avoided cliches - and to intrinsically link to the garden. A weekend escape for a busy family who come down to escape the city, to enjoy their art collection, garden and cook together. The design springs from my neuroscience research and is based on appealing to our hard wired needs, our fundamental instincts - sociability, easy movement, art, comfort, hearth, smells, readiness for visitors, view of outdoors and a place to eat. The key design innovation was the use of soft geometry, not so much in the planning but in the three dimensionality of the furniture which grows out of the floor in an organic way. The soft geometry is in the profile of the pieces, not in their footprint. The users can stroke the furniture, lie against it and feel its softness, all of which helps the visitors to kitchen linger and chat. The fireplace is located in the middle between the cooking zone and the garden. There is plenty of room to draw up a chair and just sit around. The fold-out doors let the landscape into the space in a generous way, especially on summer days when the weather makes the indoors and outdoors come together. The sight lines from the main cooking and preparation island offer views of the garden throughout the seasons, as well as people coming into the room and those seating at the table - so it becomes a command position or what we call the sweet spot. This often results in there being a family competition to do the cooking. The woods are Canadian Maple, Australian rosewood and Eucalyptus. All appliances are Gaggenau and Fisher and Paykel.

Brendan Pitt