VERDE / NOBÉL

The living room at VERDE, a green marble chimney wall between timber and stone

Private residence

In progress

Scope: Interior Architectureplanning, materials, joinery and light
Status: In progress

VERDE is drawn in green marble, pale timber and travertine. The marble is cut into the chimney wall of the living room, an island wrapped by a travertine table, a bar beneath a light of glass beads and a tasting table in the wine room. The lower floor is given to the rooms a house is lived in at night — the bar, the wine room, the gym and a cinema — and is reached by a stair over a bed of planting.

Living

The living room is long and open to the garden. The green marble chimney stands between timber and stone, and the kitchen island is set into the same room, with a travertine table drawn around it.

Green armchair and a low travertine table before the window wall

Green marble chimney breast, shelving and planting either side of the fire

Kitchen island in green marble wrapped by a travertine table

The island and table seen from the garden doors

Sitting area with green ceramic stools, the garden at the glass

Dining

The dining room is a room of light: glass globes hung low over a long table, linen at the windows, and niches cut into the wall to hold a few objects each.

Dining table beneath glass globe pendants and tall windows

Dining table on a stone pedestal between linen curtains

The dining table from above, its green marble top and chairs

Lit niche holding a bust and stone objects

Lower Level

Below, the house turns inward. A bar of green marble under a ribbon of light, a stair descending over planting, a lightwell, the wine room behind glass, the gym and the cinema.

Bar in green marble beneath a light drawn in glass beads

The stair seen through the glass bead light

Planted lightwell with a stone disc at its centre

Wine room behind glass, a green marble table at its centre

Green marble tasting table against dark wine walls

Gym in warm timber, weights shelved along the wall

Cinema under a ceiling of points of light

Material Register

Travertine is cut into basins, onyx is lit from behind, green marble is grooved, framed and set on pedestals. The baths and the powder room are where the materials are seen closest.

Bathroom vanity in travertine, onyx panels behind

Freestanding black bath beside a stone column

Travertine basin with a brushed brass spout

Powder room, a black basin on green marble pedestals

Draped relief behind a frame of green marble

Backlit onyx strip set into a timber wall