Bathroom as Art Installation: A Damien Hirst Included

Influenced by color, pattern, and texture; a London art collector’s home is an art installation in itself.

With a client list that includes Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and the White Cube Gallery, Rundell Associates (a member of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory) is used to designing for and around art. In the renovation of a London Victorian town house, the architects created a family home to also house an extensive art collection.

Photography by James Harris.

Above: Large-scale contemporary art works by Anselm Kiefer and Damian Hirst find a comfortable home in the open spaces and tall ceilings of the living, dining and kitchen area.

Above: The fluoro chairs by Barber Osgerby make a strong visual impact in the family dining room, which is adjacent to the kitchen. The chairs are made out of bentwood and are very lightweight.

Above: The architects bring color into the dressing room through the solid cedar cabinetry, which is lined with fluorescent glass. "I love Daniel Chadwick's Perspex mobiles and I wanted to make use of "live edge" Perspex to give the drawers a lift," says Mike Rundell the founding partner of Rundell Associates. "Back painted glass is very flat so for the rest of the units we designed a system where we laminated Perspex between two layers of glass and then painted the back of the glass white so that colored light would reflect back off it—the result is a genuinely vibrant color."

About: "The guest bathroom at the top of the house was a small room and needed something to give it a strong personality," Rundell says. N.B.: See Flouro Brights in the Bath for other uses of florescent color in the bathroom.

Above: The spines of binders covered in Florentine marbleized paper are framed by leather covered, Bill Amberg bookshelves.

Image 6 – The master bathroom was clad in Brescia Violetta, an extremely rare marble; completely covering all the walls to produce a seamless finish.

Above: The shower niche was clad in the last available sheets of pink Flor di Pesco.

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