New from one in every of our favourite current discoveries, UK-based designer Hollie Bowden: a four-bedroom vacation home sited on a wooded property on the Balearic Island of Ibiza. “The transient was to create a bohemian trip house; unpretentious, serene simplicity with luxurious consolation, a bit bit romantic and a bit bit magical; excessive on atmosphere and heat,” Bowden says. “The shoppers had seen my earlier work and trusted my imaginative and prescient, they gave me quite a lot of artistic freedom. They have been eager for the scheme to include extra funding and assertion items; with an emphasis on uncommon, distinctive gadgets; they actively inspired me to lean into my penchant for sourcing the extra uncommon and surprising items.
“I selected an earthy and impartial palette and used pure supplies all through the home. However I additionally included some modernist items to punctuate the design; it was a cautious stability. We have been going for a textural and elemental area, with tonal heat and atmosphere. The entire design was to be restful and peaceable.”
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Pictures by Genevieve Lutkin Studio.
Above: “The customized, almost 10-foot-long live-edge slab desk is created from 200-year-old walnut with a bespoke bench and a rope finish chair,” Bowden says. “The artwork work is by Danish painter Sergej Jensen, and the wall sculptures hanging on the wall between the eating room and kitchen are by Natalie Wealthy Fernandez and have been purchased from Galeria Tambien in Ibiza.”
“Sourcing fantastically aged vintage furnishings and artifacts that may sit comfortable alongside the extra up to date items is a follow I’ve refined through the years, however it’s a course of,” Bowden says. “I’m such a magpie, I collect and accumulate as I’m going utilizing intuition and knowledge. I like going to Paris and different flea markets all over the world.”
Above: A group of primitive-looking objets on show within the kitchen. “We labored with a neighborhood firm to create a very lovely mineral plaster, which we used all through the whole home.”Above: The kitchen is spare and useful.
Above: A Joe Colombo Elda Chair (1963) is flanked by a classic German medical lamp in the lounge. The monumental espresso desk is created from fossil stone—”it took about 20 males to carry it,” Bowden says.Above: A Picasso plate hangs above a charred wooden chair discovered at Les Puces in Paris within the hallway. The tough unfinished stone steps complement the mushy mineral plaster partitions.Above: A collection of Alexis Gautier tapestries hangs alongside a Nineteen Fifties bronze flower wall gentle in a hallway.Above: The country mattress linens are from UK-based Sew by Sew, which creates handmade and small batch manufacturing textiles working with artisan weavers, embroiderers, and quilt makers in Gujarat in India, Nepal, and England.Above: A country chest serves as bedside desk.Above: Hand-embroidered tapestries by Alexis Gautier; Gautier used silk and cotton thread and metallic on this piece.Above: A semi-elliptical arch is draped with a Berber rug.Above: “We sourced pure stones which have been hewn and carved into sinks,” Bowden saysAbove: A visitor bed room. All through the challenge, Bowden used forest inexperienced Belgian linen curtains to subtly reference the home’s environment.
Above: The lamp is by Laura Huston Ceramics.Above: A view of the bathe.Above: “We labored with a Belgian maker on the sanitaryware, which is hand crushed so has actually pretty imperfections,” Bowden says.Above: The wall-to-wall bespoke trough sink is common from a single slab of Spanish habana stone.
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