The Mehta Residence
Raw marble. Brutal calm.
A family of five living in a house built for impression, not for living. The client wanted something that felt less like a magazine spread and more like an exhale. Previous contractors had created a space that looked expensive but felt empty — loud in the wrong way.
We stripped the palette to three materials: Calacatta marble, unlacquered brass, and aged Belgian linen. The spatial strategy began with removing two walls that fragmented the ground floor and replaced them with a single 9-metre slab of marble stretching from the entrance to the garden. Every decision was filtered through a single question: does it make you want to stay?
A home that photographs magnificently but — more importantly — one that the family refuses to leave on weekends. The client's words: "For the first time in three years, we cancelled a holiday because we didn't want to leave."
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