Two bathrooms developed as complementary studies in stone, timber and precisely controlled light.
Two bathrooms, in sequence
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Two bathrooms developed as complementary studies within one Chelsea residence. One is pale and open to garden light, balancing warm stone, dark timber and freestanding bathing; the other compresses the same concern for proportion into a charcoal vanity wall, where mirrored storage and a double stone trough read as one piece of architecture.
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The study considers two bathrooms with deliberately different atmospheres: a generous principal room open to garden light, and a more compact room organised around a double vanity. Rather than make them identical, a shared discipline of proportion, storage and material holds them together.
In both, fittings are reduced to a small number of precise lines so the vanity, the bath and the available light can establish the room.
The lighter room brings pale composite stone together with smoked timber, using the stone as a continuous datum across the vanity wall and around the bath. Warm metal fittings sit against it without becoming decorative accents.
The second room inverts that register. Charcoal joinery and a dark wall plane hold a single pale trough of veined stone, concentrating every contrast at the point of use.
Full-height glazing gives the principal bathroom its changing surface, carrying soft daylight across the stone and leaving the freestanding bath almost without shadow at the window edge.
In the darker room, a concealed line beneath the mirrored cabinets washes the wall and vanity. The source disappears, allowing the reflected light and the pale stone to give the compact elevation its depth.
