The lucian Home
HYDE PARK, LONDON
A 3,600 sq ft London home, designed as a sanctuary for a large international family who use it as their base when they're in the city. The studio's most ambitious project to date.
Full Turnkey Design | Photography: Paul Craig | Styling: Lucy Mulliner
The Brief
A family of seven. Two adults with very different tastes — one drawn to warmth and craft, the other to precision and quiet drama. Five children of varying ages. A home that had to work as a family space, a hosting space, and somewhere to genuinely rest between long stretches of travel.
Not just a London apartment. A London home.
The reference point they arrived with wasn't another apartment. It was a hotel — the Mandarin Oriental. Not the polish, but the feeling. The sense that a space could hold you, look after you, and get out of the way when it needed to.
how we did it
Every decision on this project has been an act of interpretation. Two very different personalities in one couple. Public spaces and private ones. Grown-up rooms and children's ones. A hospitality reference translated into somewhere that has to feel unmistakably like home.
The materials do a lot of the work. Book-matched marble. Silk wallpapers. Walnut burr veneers. Coffered ceilings. Bespoke joinery throughout — kitchen, beds, sofas, furniture, lighting. Every piece drawn specifically for this house, for this family, for how they'll actually use it.
A look-and-feel document drafted at the very start of the project, almost two years ago, is being realised — room by room — as the last installs go in.
the result
Texture everywhere. Warmth in every room. Detail on detail, layered in a way that only reveals itself as you move through the space and touch it. Nothing loud. Nothing performing. Just an abundance of considered decisions that add up to something quietly extraordinary.
The whole home is built for a family that's comfortable together and comfortable hosting. Rooms designed to hold a long, slow lunch as easily as an evening in on a sofa. Spaces that entertain and spaces that restore, holding equal weight.
The kitchen — the heart of it — is deceptively simple. Behind the joinery is enough storage to hold the life of a family of seven. The appliances are the best available. But nothing announces itself. Everything works because it was designed for exactly this family, in exactly this home.
The Mandarin Oriental was the reference. What the family got is something quieter, more private, and more theirs..
