The Layers that Lure
Interior design and redecoration of a formal dining room
The client approached the designer with a vision to renovate a large family dining room that could capture the earthy tones and textures of the surrounding natural landscape. A cool, natural material palette was adopted to bring the revitalizing qualities of the nearby beach into the home, and create a distinct ambiance upon entry.
Positioned midway along the length of the room, a complimentary fully-bespoke marble mantelpiece and overmantel mirror was proposed to act as a striking focal-point during formal dinner parties and cocktail evenings.
Type
Interior Design
Year
2020-23
Size
40 sqm.
Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hand-drawing allowed me to make sense of the forms beach sand takes. Stripping textures back to abstract diagrams revealed the underlying patterns and systems.
I became interested in how density, intricacy and linearity shifted across a surface, sometimes easing from one state to the next, other times breaking sharply.
Cataloguing the sands
of the Causeway Coast
Over the course of 2024 I visited several beaches along the Causeway Coast in the hope of documenting the various ways in which both wind and tide sculpt the local sands.
Countless forms of relief are catalogued, each reflecting the dynamic and unpredictable nature of this material and the forces that shape it.
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