Dublin studio Kingston Lafferty Design has reworked the structure and interiors of this household residence in Cork, Ireland, which options Nineteen Seventies-style shapes and hues knowledgeable by the work of designer Verner Panton.
Positioned on Lovers Stroll hill overlooking town of Cork, the townhouse – known as Lovers Stroll – was renovated by Kingston Lafferty Design.
The studio initially deliberate to only replace the interiors, however determined {that a} extra intensive architectural transformation was wanted after discovering structural instabilities within the residence.
Kingston Lafferty Design eliminated the entire flooring, which lacked foundations and insulation of their concrete slab, and utterly reconfigured the two-storey property’s structure.
“Because the constructing was initially constructed within the Nineteen Seventies, we wished to return to its roots,” studio founder Róisín Lafferty informed Dezeen.
“We thrived on inspiration from Verner Panton along with his use of robust clashing color, playful shapes and outsized parts,” she added.
The bottom flooring was tailored to incorporate an open-plan kitchen outlined by a counter, island and splashback completed in veiny purple quartzite.
Ruby-toned timber was used to create the geometric cupboards. When layered with the quartzite, “it feels like a catastrophe, but it surely’s a delight,” mentioned the designer.
The area, described by the studio as a “sensual red-toned jewel kitchen”, is one in all a number of rooms on the bottom flooring of Lovers Stroll that had been designed across the central, oak-lined hallway.
“We used the hallway because the core of the home, which grounded the area with pops of color stemming from it. Every room main from the core seems like a framed view or window of color,” defined Lafferty.
The lounge consists of blue velvet sofas and a inexperienced characteristic wall clad in swirly book-matched marble, which was fitted with an alcove reserved for a refined hearth.
When creating the polished stone wall, the studio took cues from the seminal Barcelona Pavilion, accomplished in 1929 by modernist architect Mies van der Rohe.
“We used inexperienced as an total thread all through the home, impressed by the encircling panorama,” added Lafferty.
“Though relying on the time of yr, the colors have a tendency to alter and so we had been ready so as to add in different wealthy colors that anchor the inexperienced comparable to burgundies and vibrant oranges,” she added.
“One would assume this combine of colors would conflict, however we select the tones and textures of every to make sure that all of them would mix harmoniously,” Lafferty mentioned.
Upstairs, the primary bed room and en-suite toilet had been wearing the identical eclectic interiors because the communal areas. A floor-to-ceiling headboard, completed in diamond-shaped inexperienced tiles initially designed by Twentieth-century architect Gio Ponti, frames the mattress.
Balloon-like colored glass vases had been positioned on two bedside tables, which had been topped with the identical slabs of Rosso Levanto marble because the geometric self-importance desk.
The bed room designed for the occupants’ baby options another mattress – a playful inexperienced construction with two stacked ranges and half-moon openings that reveal a comfy sleeping space on the underside stage.
Different accents featured all through the house embody burl wooden, terrazzo, plaster and brass. The repetition of Nineteen Seventies-style thick pile carpets emphasises the dwelling’s textured materials palette.
Lovers Stroll is the studio’s “closest nod” to the work of Panton, defined Lafferty – “all the way down to the collection of each tile, mild becoming and beautiful piece of designer furnishings”.
“Though there’s such an array of materiality, it’s balanced by repeated color, form and kind,” she mentioned.
“Each area on this home is an assault on the senses, in the easiest way doable.”
Based in 2010, Kingston Lafferty Design has accomplished tasks starting from a Dublin restaurant with outsized lollipop-like lamps and a co-working office in Belfast that features a yoga studio.
The pictures is by Ruth Maria Murphy.
Challenge credit:
Inside structure and design: Kingston Lafferty Design
Woodwork: DFL
Stonework: Miller Brothers