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Revamp No.2

Black Desert House revamp no.2 – this?…

Or taking softer, older elements like this table to mix with the modern kitchen chairs to contrast and compare.

To take the colour black but loosen the hard lines of modernity, accepting the black is modern enough.

Upgrading the light to a design classic.

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Working with the room, and not against it.

Laters, Kate x

Revamp No.1

Why doesn’t it work? Maybe the photos don’t do it justice, but for a super expensive building this interior comes across as a mash-up between a car sales room and Ikea.  The intention seems to have been to create a distinct feeling between what’s inside and what’s outside, but when that subtle line between nature and manufactured isn’t blurred, the furniture responds by looking brash, staged and disconnected.

Which doesn’t mean reflective surfaces as bad – just that age, colour and natural elements need to have a voice.

Even black works when it’s veined marble.  The chairs, the nod to modernity with the patina of vintage, the table in the middle inviting the voyeur to sit and drink in, be in the room.

Or change it with the presence of wood, natural, warm, characterful.

The pink chairs..the colours.

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The lighting..

Laters, Kate x

Black Desert House x

Black Desert House in the Yucca Valley near Palm Springs is a darkness that flows and follows, proud yet hugging the ground.  In fact the architects, Oller and Pejic Architecture were told ‘To build a house like a shadow’, an idea as they said with ‘very specific relevance to the desert area where the sunlight is often so bright that the eyes only resting place is the shadows’.

The opposite of expectation for a house in the desert, the darkness offers an almost dreamlike quality as it both sits within the landscape but also underlines it’s difference.  This is beauty distilled to it’s most appealing concentration, a thunderous quiet, brooding contrast to the celebration of nature.

But I have to confess to a jarring and feeling of disconnect when it comes to the interiors..

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This is the sitting room and the unsaid question is, what would take this room to another level?

Results tomorrow.

Laters, Kate x