Location: France

Interior Designer/Architect: ALTER EGO Project Group

Villa Pinède is a grand-scale project in which the customer’s desires fuse with the architects’ and designers’ professionalism to create this manmade miracle. The interior of Villa Pinède dazzles and captivates you right at first glance, you relish its spaciousness full of light and air, its sophisticated stylistic allusions, exquisite finesse of natural materials and magnificent execution of every single detail. This family residence is meant to become a hereditary jewel, a legacy for future generations.

One of the customer’s key demands was utilising rare and exclusive natural materials. The creative team collaborated with the manufacturers who use production woods from controlled and programmed cuts and extract stone in accordance with the Natural Stone Sustainability Standard. The stone was in fact given a leading role in the beautiful interiors of the house. The rooms are finished with unique marble, granite, calcite and onyx individually selected at the best Italian quarries.

One of the most unique features of the interior is certainly the fireplace in the lounge. This 6-metre-high art object is made of a single slab of marble with the use of innovative technologies of stone processing. Its décor which looks like folds of marble “fabric” is inspired by classical sculptures of great Renaissance masters. The decorative effect is enhanced by the unusual texture of the marble with its grey background and white veins, which resemble a beautiful picture depicted by nature. The tall double leaf entrance doors and the decorative relief panels with floral motifs built on the bespoke designs create important focal points. The rich floral ornamental patterns hand-carved from tufa replicated the exterior elements in the interior.

The originality and distinctiveness of the interior is coupled with it being practical, consistent and pure in an avant-garde manner. The planning solutions are made with the modern ideas of comfortable life in mind, and the functionality of the design sets the tone for the whole project. This functionality creates the setting in a necklace with individual stunning details, unmatched décor and art objects shining like precious gems in it.