London Embankment Apartment

London Embankment Apartment

Residential — A Tone Commission

A city apartment that hosts the way the household lives

A London apartment refit at urban scale: harder edges, more polished surfaces, a different kind of light to the country residences in the studio's portfolio. The brief was the cosmopolitan principal residence — entertaining at short notice, working from home, time-pressured, with the apartment doing more weeks of the year than a country house ever does.

Every joinery decision was specified for that working-life rhythm: bespoke storage that disappears, lighting that supports both quiet evenings and dinners for ten, materials chosen for daily-use durability without losing the language of luxury. A complete Commission delivered to the apartment's actual life — not a generic city pied-à-terre template the household would have lived around.

London  ·  Residential  ·  18 photographs
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