Project 01

Parkside Residence

Location: Highgate, London
Type: Residential
Year: 2026
Scope: Interior architecture, joinery, furniture

The living room, with a low travertine table, a deep sectional and a painting on the stone-faced chimney breast. — The living room faces west; the window wall was taken back to the slab to get the full head height.

A four-bedroom apartment on the north edge of the heath, bought as three tight rooms and a corridor. The work was mostly subtraction: one wall removed, the kitchen brought into the living space, and the corridor given a window it had never had.

The palette is short. Walnut for the joinery, a warm limestone for the floors and bathrooms, plaster above. The lighting is almost all indirect, set into the joinery and the ceiling coves, so the rooms hold their warmth after dark without a single downlight in the middle of a ceiling.

Walnut, rift sawn
Limestone, honed
Lime plaster
Patinated brass
Wool and linen

The kitchen island in pale marble, with stools and a run of walnut units behind. — The island is a single slab with a mitred edge; the run behind it holds everything else.

The principal bathroom: a freestanding stone bath, a walk-in shower and twin basins. — Principal bathroom. The stone returns up the wall to the underside of the mirror.

The principal bedroom, with a stone headboard panel and the city beyond the glass.

The principal bedroom sits at the quiet end of the plan, with the dressing room behind the headboard wall.

Walk through the residence

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The balcony at dusk, looking out over trees to the city skyline. — The balcony was widened by 400mm, which is the difference between standing on it and sitting on it.

The last thing decided was the furniture, which is usually the first.

Nothing was ordered until the plaster was up and the light could be seen properly. Two pieces were drawn for the rooms they sit in; the rest was bought over about eight months.

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