London’s light makes designing a neutral interior challenging, says Charu Gandhi. ‘It feels very flat; you lose contrast and depth, especially because an overcast day is not unusual!’ she explains. But ‘neutral’ was the brief her clients – an international family putting down roots in the city – gave her for this home.
Charu Gandhi 表示，伦敦的光线使得设计中性色调的室内空间变得颇具挑战性。“感觉非常单调；你会失去对比度和深度，尤其是阴天并不罕见！”她解释道。但“中性色调”是她的客户（一个扎根于伦敦的国际家庭）对这所房子的要求。
On a sweeping Nash curve facing Regent’s Park, the property they found had imposing proportions and lofty windows, making it the perfect gallery-style showcase for pieces including Raphaël Navot’s ‘Moon’ sofa for Domeau & Pérès, which sets the tone in the formal living room.
‘The theme for the project was quiet luxury,’ says Charu, adding that the clients’ direction was ‘very much about creating a haven, celebrating the scale of the space while bringing it inwards a bit without making it feel cluttered’.
Nailing the seating arrangement was crucial: ‘We intentionally went for this large, open curve so it’s not enclosing but does bring the space in.’ She adds, ‘the wool armchairs give depth. With tone-on-tone interiors you always have a risk that it can feel a bit washed out, so we relied heavily on texture to bring it to life.’
The wall light is Hannah Woodhouse’s ‘J’aimes’ design, the ‘Lob’ coffee table is by Christophe Delcourt for Collection Particulière and tucked between the Jørgen Wolff ‘Wulff’ armchairs from &Tradition is Pieter Maes’s ‘UR’ side table. The floor lamp is from Arteriors.
他们发现的这处房产位于摄政公园对面的纳什曲线上，建筑宏伟，窗户高大，成为画廊风格的完美展示场所，包括拉斐尔·纳沃特 (Raphaël Navot) 为 Domeau & Pérès 设计的“月亮”沙发，为正式的客厅奠定了基调。
“该项目的主题是静谧的奢华，”Charu 说道，并补充道，客户的方向是“创造一个避风港，强调空间的规模，同时将其稍微内敛一些，而不会让人感觉杂乱”。
确定座位安排至关重要：“我们特意选择了这种大而开放的曲线，这样它就不会封闭，但确实能将空间拉大。”她补充道，“羊毛扶手椅增加了深度。同色系的内饰总是有让人感觉有点褪色的风险，所以我们非常依赖纹理来让它充满活力。”
壁灯是 Hannah Woodhouse 的“J’aimes”设计，“Lob”咖啡桌是 Christophe Delcourt 为 Collection Particulière 设计的，Jørgen Wolff 的“Wulff”扶手椅和 &Tradition 的 Pieter Maes 的“UR”边桌就位于中间。落地灯来自 Arteriors。
Hallway
Charu introduced an up-lit plaster arch to the home’s entrance. ‘We wanted an interesting lighting effect when one stepped into the apartment. Putting in that archway, softening it and illuminating it, felt like the right thing to do.’ The ‘Tight’ console by Florence Louisy for Æquo brings tone and texture; it holds a pair of Porta Romana ‘Danseur’ lamps.
门厅
Charu 在房子的入口处安装了一座向上照明的石膏拱门。“我们希望当人们走进公寓时，能感受到一种有趣的灯光效果。安装拱门，使其柔和并照亮它，感觉这是正确的做法。” Florence Louisy 为 Æquo 设计的“Tight”控制台带来了色调和质感；它上面放着一对 Porta Romana“Danseur”灯。
Dining room
Charu created a clear distinction between the living and dining areas in this huge room by choosing two different Holland Cassidy rugs to demarcate the spaces, as well as hanging a striking chandelier by Il Pezzo Mancante over the Christophe Delcourt dining table. ‘We created a real centre of that area under the chandelier,’ she notes.
饭厅
Charu 选择了两块不同的 Holland Cassidy 地毯来划分空间，并在 Christophe Delcourt 餐桌上方悬挂了一盏引人注目的 Il Pezzo Mancante 吊灯，从而在这个巨大的房间中将起居区和用餐区区分开来。“我们在吊灯下创造了这个区域的真正中心，”她说道。
Kitchen
The Molteni & C kitchen and Gaggenau appliances that were already fitted in the apartment were in great condition, so Elicyon decided to keep them, incorporating the grained wood and stone surfaces into the rest of the room.
厨房
公寓中已安装的 Molteni & C 厨房和 Gaggenau 电器状况良好，因此 Elicyon 决定保留它们，并将木纹和石材表面融入房间的其余部分。
They added a Damien Langlois-Meurinne ‘Good Day Sunshine’ table for more relaxed family dining and worked with Norfolk-based firm Bill Cleyndert & Company to craft the bespoke curved bench seat. ‘We find it immensely useful to work with a British joiner so that we can be closely involved with the making of pieces,’ says Charu. The ‘Polus 002’ dining chairs are by Pierre Augustin Rose.
他们添加了 Damien Langlois-Meurinne 的“Good Day Sunshine”餐桌，让家庭用餐更加轻松，并与位于诺福克的 Bill Cleyndert & Company 公司合作，制作了定制的弧形长椅。“我们发现与英国细木工合作非常有用，这样我们就可以密切参与制作工作，”Charu 说。“Polus 002”餐椅由 Pierre Augustin Rose 设计。
Study
Two of the five bedrooms became offices, reflecting the family’s focus on studying. Bill Cleyndert & Company made the shelving in light oak with walnut drawer fronts.
Charu chose pieces that hint at mid-century design, like the Bodo Sperlein ‘Contourline’ desk and Michel Amar’s ‘Swan’ lamp, saying, ‘this project, unlike those focused on wall finishes, is more about a curated collection of beautiful furniture, very mindfully placed together.’ The desk chair is by HAG, a ‘Circuit: 7’ pendant byApparatus hangs overhead and the rug is by Holland Cassidy.
学习
五间卧室中的两间被用作办公室，反映出这个家庭对学习的重视。Bill Cleyndert & Company 用浅橡木制成搁架，抽屉正面为胡桃木。
Charu 选择了一些带有中世纪设计风格的家具，比如 Bodo Sperlein 的“Contourline”书桌和 Michel Amar 的“Swan”灯。他表示，“这个项目与那些专注于墙面装饰的项目不同，它更像是精心挑选的精美家具，这些家具被精心地摆放在一起。”书桌椅来自 HAG，头顶上悬挂着 Apparatus 的“Circuit: 7”吊灯，地毯来自 Holland Cassidy。
Family room
In this more casual living area adjoining the kitchen, Charu and her team wanted to visually reduce the height of the ceiling, ‘so we chose the floating fabric ‘Tense’ pendants by New Works that sit lower. They have quite large diameters, so it’s almost like creating another surface at a distance from the ceiling. We felt with the quite strong kitchen that we inherited that another neutral, tone-on-tone seating arrangement would feel completely washed out, so we were very proactive about wanting that intense dark-green Arteriors ‘Turner’ sofa to bring depth to the space.’
家庭房
在这个与厨房相邻的休闲生活区，Charu 和她的团队希望在视觉上降低天花板的高度，“所以我们选择了 New Works 的悬浮式织物’Tense’吊灯，它们的位置较低。它们的直径相当大，所以几乎就像在距离天花板较远的地方创造了另一个表面。我们觉得，在我们继承的这个相当坚固的厨房里，另一种中性、同色系的座位安排会让人感觉完全褪色，所以我们非常积极地想要使用深绿色的 Arteriors’Turner’沙发来给空间带来深度。”
On the Holland Cassidy rug stands the ‘Torrington’ coffee table, also from Arteriors, a Pierre Augustin Rose ‘Polus’ chair, with Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s ‘Retro’ lamp on the side table. The floor lamp is Arteriors’ ‘Putney’ design.
Holland Cassidy 地毯上摆放着同样来自 Arteriors 的“Torrington”咖啡桌、Pierre Augustin Rose 的“Polus”椅子，边桌上摆放着 Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance 的“Retro”灯。落地灯是 Arteriors 的“Putney”设计。
Guest bedroom
Colour makes an unexpected appearance in this resolutely tonal scheme in the guest bedroom, where Boris Klimek’s ‘Pebbles’ pendants for Bomma pop against the linen headboard. ‘The owners like very quiet interiors but any time we showed them something that had clean lines, and a childlike playfulness, they were drawn to it!’ says Charu.
客卧
客房的色调鲜明，色彩出乎意料地出现在其中，Boris Klimek 为 Bomma 设计的“鹅卵石”吊灯与亚麻床头板相映成趣。“业主喜欢非常安静的室内空间，但只要我们向他们展示一些线条简洁、充满童真童趣的东西，他们就会被吸引！”Charu 说道。
Main bedroom
A striking element in this scheme is the pair of marble-topped, light-oak bedside tables with their distinctive hammered-timber textured drawers, a finish that continues across the headboard.
主卧室
该方案中一个引人注目的元素是一对大理石台面、浅橡木材质的床头柜，其抽屉采用独特的锤纹木纹理，这种饰面一直延伸到整个床头板。
‘There’s a risk with these sorts of projects that they can feel too slick,’ says Charu, adding, ‘in that context we love bringing in that slightly unexpected tactile element, with a very natural grain. We worked with Bill Cleyndert & Company to develop this texture, which we thought brought in some movement. The remit was very much to keep the materiality singular, so you want then to rely on this tactility to add depth.’
By the Naturalmat bed stands BDDW’s ‘Abel’ sofa, while a large Holland Cassidy rug brings softness and interest with its different pile heights. The ‘Halo’ bedside lamps are by Grès Ceramics and the ‘Out of Line’ coffee table is by Bieke Casteleyn for Ormond Editions.
“这类项目的风险在于，它们可能会让人感觉太过光滑，”Charu 说道，并补充道，“在这种情况下，我们喜欢引入这种略带意外的触觉元素，并赋予其非常自然的纹理。我们与 Bill Cleyndert & Company 合作开发了这种纹理，我们认为这带来了一些动感。我们的职责就是保持材料的独特性，因此你需要依靠这种触感来增加深度。”
Naturalmat 床边摆放着 BDDW 的“Abel”沙发，而 Holland Cassidy 大地毯则以不同的绒头高度带来柔软感和趣味性。“Halo”床头灯由 Grès Ceramics 出品，“Out of Line”咖啡桌由 Bieke Casteleyn 为 Ormond