Designed by Daniel Boddam Studio, Carthona House combines elements of the artisanal and handmade to propose a series of spaces that breathe and bridge time. Studio CD responded to the effortless integration of heritage features and clever modern lines, by selecting a range of timeless, high-quality pieces in luxurious materials to create an elevated and very sophisticated home.
Architecture and interiors by Daniel Boddam Studio. See the full project HERE. Photography by Pablo Veiga. Styling by STUDIO CD.
On its generous allotment in Mosman, Carthona House is the expanding and opening up of its heritage bones to engage with both a contemporary sensibility and its site. Through a series of gestures that allow the home to breathe, an extension funnels the formality of the original home into an open and less rigid form. In a play on contrasts, the addition is elemental and raw, while the original home sits polished and ornate.
THROUGH A SERIES OF GESTURES THAT ALLOW THE HOME TO BREATHE, AN EXTENSION FUNNELS THE FORMALITY OF THE ORIGINAL HOME INTO AN OPEN AND LESS RIGID FORM.
Taking cues from the underlying fundamentals of the original Federation-era brick home, the new addition is conceived from a similar focus on the artisanal, through a detail-focused approach. A sense of equilibrium inspires the old and new and how they interact, where the formal enclosed elements become the counter to the open and raw.
The interior aims to embody a welcoming warmth through texture, while the exterior is cool in the minimal and restrained form as it sits on site. Regular openings allow and encourage the exterior spaces to spill into the interior, allowing natural sunlight and ventilation inward. Through its battened façade elements, the addition becomes its own lantern of sorts, glowing at time, while expressing movement at others.
Carthona House extends the previous narrative of the heritage home, bringing elements of legacy forward and reinterpreting them through a modern lens. Daniel Boddam Studio beautifully combines references to time and through a focus on craft binds them effortlessly.
INGREDIENTS
Furniture, Art & Decor – .M Contemporary, Skye Jamieson, Great Dane Furniture, Graphis Gallery, Walter Auer, Daniel Boddam, Alana Wilson, Becker Minty, Studio ALM, Planet Furniture, Curatorial & Co, Katarina Wells Ceramics, Alexandra Brownlow, Ondene, Greg Natale.