Residential Complex "Barrin House"

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What mattered to the client

Project highlights

A former professional athlete with a successful sporting career. She loves richly patterned Eastern interiors and the glamour of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood. We decided to bring these two worlds together.

From our first conversations, the client often mentioned peacocks as an image she wanted to see in her home. We found the solution quickly: a large, open wall in the living room became the setting for a monumental plaster relief depicting a pair of regal peacocks.

Peacocks and their magnificent tail feathers recur throughout the apartment. Beside the plaster relief in the living room, a decorative partition uses Tiffany-style stained glass to create a peacock-tail pattern. Above the bath in the main bathroom, the same motif appears in a marble mosaic panel with brass inlays.

A black-and-white geometric floor panel adds a more restrained counterpoint. Wooden wall panelling, painted in a soft, light shade, runs throughout the apartment.

The finished interior

The result is a distinctive interior worthy of standing alongside the finest historical examples of the last great style of the twentieth century.

Apartment in a new residential building