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Everything in the plan reports to the hall. It runs the full height of the house, and the stair turns through it as a single sculptural ribbon, lit from above so the underside of the flight becomes the brightest surface in the room. Around it the materials are few and repeated: veined marble underfoot and on the wall panels, fluted and slatted timber in tall vertical bays, bronze-toned metal in the frames, screens and balustrade.

The reception rooms sit off that axis and are treated as a sequence rather than separate schemes — formal living, dining and family sitting each take the same palette at a different intensity, so the house reads as one interior from the door to the garden. Lighting is integrated rather than applied: linear coves, backlit stone, and a small number of large decorative pieces where the ceiling opens up.