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Location: UAE
Architect: Russell Skea Infinite Designers
Interior Designer: Helen Skea Infinite Designers
Construction Company: BW Interiors
Photographer Credit: Duncan Chard

Surrounded by greenery, this seven-bedroom home takes its identity from nature in the form of ‘The Tree of Life’; a centre piece imported from Indonesia that acts in stark juxtaposition to the strong vertical and horizontal lines featured throughout the home.

Lighting design was introduced throughout to enhance the features of this stunning villa. The brief was to seamlessly integrate the lighting within the natural organic features to add impact and drama along with soft and delicate warmth to each space. The scheme that John Cullen Lighting has developed seamlessly disappears into the structure, so that just the effects can be seen rather than the light sources. It plays well with the natural textures, creating an inviting space from room to room.

Designing with the talented Helen Skea, Design Director of Infinite Designers in Dubai, UAE, was always met with fun creativity and allowed for plenty of clever details and concepts to be conceived whilst working together on the project, effectively bringing together the interior design and lighting design. Her attention to the materiality of the space and expertly understanding the client brief, meant for endless opportunities for John Cullen Lighting to explore new fun ways to incorporate lighting throughout.

The natural materiality of the space was considered throughout to create an organic, warm, inviting space which lives and breathes in the nature surrounding it. For John Cullen Lighting, their favourite example of this is the double height main hall that is flooded with rays of sunshine from the cleverly designed skylights and slatted ceilings. However, in the evening, the lighting appears almost imperceptibly from within the vertical wooden details and adds a soft yet delicate warmth to the space. The room is instantly transformed from fresh and vast, to intimate and cosy.