Preview - For the Collector Who Lives Lightly

The brief was a paradox: my client owns seven hundred objects — paintings, prints, ceramics, glass — and wanted a home that felt empty. He had been offered advice by every designer he had ever met, and had declined it all, choosing instead to live in a series of rented apartments where he could hang things freely without committing to walls.

What we gave him was what he actually needed: a framework for his collection, not a showcase for it. Deep windowsills where ceramics could sit without being displayed. Long, low shelves that ran below eye level. A neutral palette — white, stone, pale oak — that disappeared entirely behind the work. He told me it was the first home he had ever owned. He is sixty-seven.

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