The house was already built, the architecture already settled. What it needed was a sensibility — someone to choose what stayed, what arrived, and how the rooms would learn to speak to one another.
We worked only with the surfaces and the contents. Walls were repainted in tones drawn from the surrounding vineyards. Curtains in unlined linen soften the light without dimming it. Furniture was sourced piece by piece, mixing vintage finds with new commissions, nothing matching too neatly. The library was built around the books that were already there.
The palette is chalk, weathered oak, and a dusty olive that returns from room to room. The lake is visible from almost everywhere, and the decoration was kept calm enough not to compete with it.
"The best rooms aren't designed.
They are uncovered "