The ENTRY foyer didn't INTRODUCE the home.
It SET the standard for it.
The clients came from the world of construction. They knew the market, they knew the finishes, and they knew exactly what they did not want. What they brought to LLP Design was simple: a home that was entirely and only theirs.
The response was a contemporary residence with Mediterranean warmth running through it, furnished entirely with custom designed and imported pieces that exist nowhere else. Each one sourced, specified and made for this home and no other.
the ENTRY Foyer
The entry foyer announces the residence with the kind of conviction that the rest of the home is obliged to honour. Rising through two full storeys, the space is anchored by a custom imported chandelier that descends through the void with architectural authority, setting the terms for every room that follows. The walls are hand-finished in pewter Venetian plaster, a surface that shifts with the light and resists any easy reading of the hour or the season. Against it, carved timber entry doors and a sculptural staircase establish the grammar of the house: handcrafted, unhurried, completely resolved. A geometric upholstered accent chair and zebra hide rug introduce the layering of texture and provenance that runs through every room.
the Semi-Formal LOUNGE
The foyer opens directly into the semi-formal lounge, an arrangement that rewards the scale of the entry rather than retreating from it. Custom furnishings sourced through LLP Design and the Luis La Pegna stores give the room its particular character: pieces drawn from international suppliers, specified for this home and no other. A sculptural coffee table anchors the seating, and designer lighting brought in from the global sourcing programme completes a room that reads as edited rather than assembled.
the KITCHEN and Dining
The kitchen and dining open plan is designed for the kind of entertaining that begins at the kitchen island and ends well after midnight. The proportions are handled generously, with room to move, room to seat a crowd, room for the room to breathe. Custom joinery and tailored material finishes carry the language of the entry through to the heart of the house, while the dining setting, styled for ceremony and scaled for family, holds its own as a destination.
the DINING Room
The dining room is the kind of space that takes its cue from the occasion. Relaxed enough for a long casual lunch, resolved enough to dress for a dinner party without trying. Bespoke table settings, considered floral centrepieces, decorative coral sculptures and candlelight show one version of what the room can be. The Mediterranean influence in the brief is most at home here, where the atmosphere shifts easily between the informal and the celebratory without the room changing at all.
Alfresco Entertaining and POOL
Outside, the alfresco entertaining area is fully equipped and resort-scaled, conceived as an extension of the interior rather than a concession to the climate. The pool reads as a landscape element as much as a practical one, framed and finished to hold its own against the architecture that surrounds it.
the Underground BAR
Below the pool level, a fully fitted bar occupies what is arguably the most theatrical space in the house.
Windows cut directly into the pool wall bring water and light into the room in equal measure, an idea that belongs to neither interior design nor architecture exclusively, and is all the better for it.
The brief asked for a mancave. The response delivered something closer to a private members club.
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