What inspired the design of the project?
Centre Point’s brutalist architecture provided us with a bottomless well of inspiration. Everything from the building’s rippling rhythms of precast concrete to the beautiful light that pours in through the east- and west-facing windows informed our designs.
We took the spirit of modernism – its optimism and freedom of expression – and made it our own, mixing rectilinear forms with organic shapes, bright rich colours with soft pale neutrals, smooth surfaces with strong textures, and subtle patterns with bold motifs. This ebb and flow of binary styles creates a lovely rhythm as you journey from room to room, from morning till night.
We instinctively wanted colour-soaked interiors that contradict the cool white-grey exterior of the building. Each colour was carefully selected to elicit a different emotional response. The embracing warmth of terracotta in the principal bedroom. The respective palettes of soothing pink and positive green in the guest bedrooms. And the healing energy of copper in the dining area. These colours are designed to calm and balance, energise and uplift, and in turn enhance the experience of living up high with all of London laid out before you.
As for materials, we incorporated as many as we could to honour the concrete, steel, glass, limestone and wood present in the building. We chose walnut, rattan, marble, leather, bronze, ceramic, resin, oxidised steel, bamboo silk, velvet – a panoply of noble and other quality materials that look, feel and smell reassuringly luxurious. Their veins, grains, colours, textures and aromatic properties add to the rich sensory experience throughout.