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A holiday home lives on a few things, well chosen. It is an exercise in subtraction that teaches a lot about the everyday home too.
We touch a home before we look at it. In summer, the difference between a room that welcomes and one that repels comes down to the degrees its surfaces hold.
The table is the only piece of furniture where you eat, work, play, argue and make up. Yet it gets chosen as if it were just a horizontal surface.
In summer we design the light and forget its reverse. Yet when the sun turns harsh, it is shade that decides whether a room can be lived in.
The bedroom is the space where we spend a third of our lives. Designing it with photographs in mind first is a mistake paid for every night.
Colour isn't a decorative choice. It's a decision about volume, light and emotional temperature — and getting it wrong costs you every time you walk into the room.