McMahons Point Residence
By Brooke Aitken Design
The award-winning McMahons Point Residence belongs to a long-term client of Brooke Aitken. Having known the family of four for over a decade, Brooke understood the precise look they wanted to achieve for their new harbourside home; colourful, welcoming and a natural showcase for the art and designer furniture they’d collected over the years. With no structural work required, Brooke’s architectural skills were set to one side as she focused on decorating. The brief also required creating a residential space that displayed a different aesthetic from previous homes.
Brooke was tasked to use the beautiful existing decor pieces in contemporary ways, whilst integrating a curated selection of new designer pieces to this property, such as Marion Borgelt’s Lunar wall sculpture in the master bedroom. The client’s strong love of Australian contemporary artists and their wonderful art collection contributed to the vision of the new design. Positioned over a three-car garage and wine cellar, the bottom level of this home is a self-contained space with its own kitchenette and terrace. Above it are the home’s living spaces, simply arranged with a dining zone at the rear, kitchen in the middle and living area positioned at the front to open out to a large deck and harbour views beyond.
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We are architects who believe interior design is an essential part of the design equation for seamless, coordinated and strong conceptual visions.
Brooke Aitken Design is both an architectural and interior design practice that focusses on the combination of both to create beautiful rooms. We are one of the few architectural practices in Australia that can both build and furnish a project. We design from both the external-in and the internal-out, blurring the traditional division between architecture and interior design for a finish that is seamless in vision. We specialise in mid to high-end residential architecture and design but are also well versed in and welcome many other project types. Our preference for architectural projects are ones that extend to the interiors, yet we regularly undertake interior decoration without an architectural requirement.
Brooke Aitken heads a small boutique team of architects and interior designers that are well trained in quality design and construction methods. We enjoy problem-solving and providing our clients with a fresh eye with both professionalism and enthusiasm. We work at many scales, whether it be feasibility and strategic planning for a corporate client or procuring a single item for a residential client. The practice is passionate about providing a design service that best suits the project, the client’s brief, and their aesthetics.
We have a strong contemporary aesthetic that stands the test of time beyond stylistic fashions. We term this 'Soft Modernism'. However, in each project we aim to weave the client’s personality and tastes, which makes each design singular. Beyond aesthetics, our aim is to create livable, sustainable and practical spaces which relate to the brief, budget and site. We concur with the tenets Slow Architecture Movement and believe that renovation can often be better than replacement.
Colour plays an important role as do material and decorative choices, but all are determined by the conceptual design response at the beginning of the project.