The young couple asked for a contemporary functional house which could evolve around their kids and their parents but at the same time the house needed to be a habitable space where the century old paintings and art pieces collected by the generations of the client’s family could be displayed inconspicuously.

An insouciant elegance best describes the soul of the house. In order to make a dialogue between the contemporary and the traditional, different textures, patterns and colors have been used throughout the house. The patterns inspired from the work of the artist Nigel Peake and the traditional artwork act as a binding vine between the old and the new. Spatially, the house is divided into two: the social and the private areas. The social area comprises of the living, dining and the kitchen which flow seamless into one another. Each bedroom has a character of its own based on the user. The design of the furniture in wood and brass nods to tradition but is executed in a modern minimalist way.