Tongue and Groove Bistre timber floors line the kitchen ceiling, while Palladiana white marble with white aggregate from Instyle dresses the floors. Signorino Super White stone is applied to the kitchen benchtops, splashback and rangehood and complemented with timber veneer cabinetry in Dulux Dialogue with Made Measure Brass Satin Slimline 01 joinery pulls. A Great Dane Johansen dining table is featured under the Apparatus Trapeze 7 Mobile pendant, with a vessel from Craft Victoria, and Fritz Hansen Series 7 chairs tucked underneath. Great Dane Piruett stools sit under the kitchen island.
Spontaneous moments of colour and layered textures create a contemporary Melbourne home for a young family of five.
A collaboration between Studio Tate and Lovell Burton, an ‘L shape’ floor plan embraces the site’s gradient terrain as it embraces a secluded garden and pool. The clients with familial connections to the studio were deeply involved in the design process. “It was important for the home to adapt to the family’s changing needs,” Studio Tate associate director Elizabeth Ride explains. They desired that the home “felt warm and textural and that each space was considered for its functionality first,” Ride adds.
A skylight bathes the entrance with natural light through a double-height void, just as the white marble floors facilitate the luminosity within the space, creating an impressive greeting for guests.
Past the entrance, the home unfolds in what Ride calls a ‘jewel box moment’, where a glorious spectrum of hues wraps the spaces and juxtaposes them against one another. The jewelled colours range from neutral warm tones offset with a range of pastels to forest greens and blue. “Aesthetically, the clients were keen to be challenged,” Ride recalls, which compelled the studio to create “something that had its own language and palette and was at once frivolous and luxurious,” she adds.
Signorino Super White marble dresses the kitchen, accentuated against a muted backdrop of pastel grey-blue cabinetry and brass details. Subtle moments of surprise are introduced through the glossy marine blue interiors of the bar cabinet to the Norwegian Rose stone discretely applied to the handles and shelving.
Adjacent, the living room is in conversation with the leafy exterior landscape through the deep forest hues embedded in the carpet, furnishings and artwork. While in the powder room, a jewel box moment presides with the Norwegian Rose stone applied to the floors and amplified with fresco blush walls that take centre stage under the brass ceiling mirror and Murano chandelier.
Guiding the staircase ascent is the Oculus skylight that leads to the family bedrooms, where the spaces are designed to evolve over the years. “The scale of the kids’ bedrooms and shared zone is future-proofed to accommodate study desks as their needs change over time,” Ride explains.
The primary suite is spaciously proportioned as a sanctuary, featuring an Esmeralda pedestal stone basin in the ensuite, balanced with vanilla silver stone floors and zellige tiles. In the bedroom, cabinetry is dressed in lacquered mint and paired with oat-coloured coverings.
The designer concludes that Malvern House III is woven together with “glamorous moments that are inserted among a warm, textural background to strike a fine balance between homely and luxurious.”
The living room features a Studio Tate custom-designed lounge covered in Pierre Frey Fox fabric in Petrole, paired with a Hem Puffy lounge chair, Just Adele coffee tables, and Clara Adolphins artwork from Guest Agency.
The bar cabinet features Limed White Half on 1/4 cut oak veneer with Signorino Norwegian Rose handles accented with brass, and interiors coated in Dulux Passionate Blue gloss. Also featured are Palladina White Marble with White Aggregate from Instyle and Signorino Super White stone.
The entrance features the Apparatus Lariat 6 pendant that illuminates the space, with Palladiana flooring in White Marble with White Aggregate from Instyle. Also pictured: a Studio Tate custom-designed bench made by Thomas Lentini and a Barbera Fermat Entrance handle.
A Zuster Conter desk is paired with a Herman Miller Eames Aluminium Group chair, DK3 Royal System wall shelving unit and custom cabinetry in Dulux Oro. Accenting the space is an artwork by Ella Dunn I have been her kind from Sophie Gannon Gallery.
The walk-in-robe in the primary bedroom features cabinetry in Dulux light ceramic paired with Kvadrat wall covering in Maharam Tek Wall Placid 005 Oats, with the Fredericia Sequoia pouf and Gubi F.A. 33 wall mirror.
The primary ensuite features a Signorino Esmerelda stone pedestal sink, contrasted by Tiento Safi White Glossy wall tiles, and G-Lux Vanilla Silver floor tiles that are illuminated by Apparatus Circuit 1 wall lights.
The powder room features Signorino Norwegian Rose applied to the floor and shelving, with Marble Hub pedestal basin. The walls are finished with Porters Fresco painted and illuminated by a vintage pendant.
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