South Yarra 01
Form, light, and texture.
Location: South Yarra, VICTORIA
Architect: POP Architecture
Builder: Cloverleigh Home Improvements
Landscape: Amanda Oliver Gardens
Photography: Willem-Dirk du Toit
BEATRIX ROWE, in close collaboration with Pop Architecture, transformed a run-down Edwardian house into an inspired, contemporary, home that balances its period assets with a desire for greater connection to nature and light. Underpinned by the essential brief for a well-functioning family home, the design also celebrates form, light and texture.
A high clerestory window in the hallway, configured to frame a towering Eucalypt in a neighbouring property; helps delineate between old and new sections of the house and is a perfect vehicle for flooding the darker, older interior spaces with natural light and a sense of spaciousness.
Soft edges and curved forms feature in the design of the interior, drawing from the motifs expressed in the architecture, while also mimicking the arcs of light that are captured when the northern sun casts shafts of light into the spaces.
Externally, the monolithic textured brick wall with integrated pizza oven, carries through into the interior, visually linking the inside with outside. Internally, the material selection, joinery details and custom furnishings take cue from the curved architectural forms, the result being a robust, textured and light filled family home.
Shortlisted for the AIDA
Shortlisted for IDEA
Featured on The Local Project
Featured on Australian Design Review
High Commendation for Think Brick
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We are a Melbourne-based interior design studio. We design authentic, contemporary interior spaces that respond to place, function, light and form. We are inquisitive, understated and considered in our design approach. We remain a consciously boutique interior design practice that values personal involvement and oversight of all projects.
We love to know, interpret and understand our Clients’ living and working patterns. We use the power of design to solve problems and through our design approach, find better ways to live, work and connect. We carefully think through the way people really like to live, behind closed doors; and how to work optimally in retail, hospitality and other commercial spaces.
We are rigorous and pay great attention to every detail of the spaces being created – the natural materials selected, the custom detailing, the relationship to light and the needs of people who will inhabit the spaces. We value beauty and longevity.
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We bring to each project more than 25 years’ experience across materials, furniture, art and interior possibilities as well as space planning, construction knowledge and design thinking expertise. We are collaborative. We draw upon a vast network of local contacts to build and craft our interiors and bring our projects to life.
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