Rooms made
to be lived
in slowly.

A house turned toward the water.

The villa had been closed off from its own best view - a wall of small windows between the living room and the lake. We took the wall down, set a single oak-framed opening in its place, and let the room do the rest. Everything else followed the light.

We kept the palette deliberately short: European oak underfoot and overhead, hand-troweled lime plaster on the walls, travertine in the wet rooms, and patinated brass for everything you touch. Nothing here is lacquered or sealed against time - it is meant to soften, mark and warm with the family that lives in it.