KGB House
Bringing People Together
Serving its family for at least four generations to come, KGB House is founded on bringing people together. Able to be expanded and contracted to accommodate fluxes, extraordinary detail underpins the home in its consideration of the future, ensuring the home as the central pivoting core around which life transpires.
Epic Coastal Home
In both its scale and its intimate and intuitive connection to the unique coastal surrounds, KGB House firmly anchors itself amongst the undulating landscape, as an icon of place. Drawing from this unwavering solidity and immersion amongst the dunes, the interior is defined by its layered, textural, and warm approach, softening the otherwise robust brutalist resolve. As a family home above all else, the home and each of its introduced gestures are a celebration of both life and lifestyle – a people-centric place of healthy competition, where entertaining is king and where fulfilment of what matters is supported above all else.
Scope: Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishing, Art & Object
Architecture: Charles Wright
Builder: Nick Hayes Constructions
Photography: Brock Beazley
Awards:
Melbourne Design Awards – GOLD 2023, Australia Design Awards – GOLD 2024
TIDA Australian Kitchen Design Of The Year 2023
2023 TIDA Australian Kitchen Design Of The Year
As the heart of the home in the truest sense on this occasion, the kitchen combines familiar elements of a residential setting amongst a commercial arrangement. Having spent significant time cheffing around the world, the owner sought to integrate industrial methodologies thus defining the space led by function in consideration of the future, ensuring the home as the central pivoting core around which life transpires.
We embarked on the most specific stringent wish list I have ever encountered in 30years of design practice to achieve what was considered near impossible by many trades. Driven by solutions “universal standards” did not prevent us from pushing all boundaries to deliver the extraordinary, detailed outcome. (Most of which cannot be appreciated from the kitchen and bar’s façade!)
Wrapped in bronzed brass together with an extensive use of Dekton throughout, the elemental forms that comprise the space sit sculpturally within the home.
In the planned longevity for the property, finishes needed to ensure a strength against the elements, and in some cases were distressed intentionally to encourage the reaction to the environment.
