Global Living
March 2026
A GCC royal family's palace in Riyadh demands a fundamentally different spatial logic than a Mayfair townhouse. Not because their tastes differ — both may specify the same Boca do Lobo sideboard, the same Baccarat chandelier — but because the social choreography of each space, its relationship to hospitality ritual, to gender separation, to the exhibition of status, is culturally distinct in ways that must be understood at a deep level before a single line is drawn. This is what I mean by cultural intelligence in design.
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Materials & Craft
February 2026
There are materials that register immediately — whose presence in a room communicates quality before the eye has had time to analyze — and there are materials that reveal themselves slowly, over years of living with them. The great luxury interior contains both. A Baccarat chandelier announces itself; the hand-stitched Selleria leather of a Fendi Casa sofa discloses its quality gradually, as the leather develops its patina and the stitching proves its permanence. Understanding this temporal dimension of materials is one of the underappreciated skills of the ultra-luxury designer.
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Client Stories
January 2026
A project of genuine consequence does not begin with a mood board and end with a styled photograph. It begins with a conversation — sometimes several months of conversation — about how a family actually lives: when they entertain, how they move between rooms, what they see first when they wake, what they want to feel when they come home. The Bel Air estate we completed in late 2025 required eighteen months from our first meeting to the moment the family moved in. This is the story of those eighteen months.
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