Horse Villa Interior

1. THE CHALLENGE

The client had already trusted us with their landscape, now the interior had to live up to it. The brief was demanding: a home that felt bold and unmistakably personal, without tipping into excess. Every space needed to carry a strong identity while still flowing into the next, and the materials had to feel collected and intentional rather than simply expensive. The real challenge was coherence. With sculptural feature walls, bespoke joinery, and rare stone all competing for attention, the villa risked feeling like a series of statements rather than a single, considered home. It needed one voice, and the interior had to speak the same language as the landscape we had already delivered outside.

2. THE SOLUTION

We approached the interior as one continuous composition rather than a set of individual rooms. A warm cognac palette anchors the home, carried through hand-lacquered curved feature walls whose flowing horizontal lines echo the organic movement of the exterior landscape. Against that warmth, we introduced moments of contrast and craft: a full-height brass perforated mesh wall wrapping seamlessly from ceiling to floor, backlit book matched onyx that reads like a painting in stone, and custom joinery detailed and manufactured specifically for these proportions. Every material was selected slab by slab and drawn to fit, nothing pulled from a catalogue. Because Designex designed and executed the project end to end, the intent never got lost between concept and construction. What was imagined is exactly what was built, and the interior now connects effortlessly to the landscape the client already loved.

3. INSIDER INSIGHT

The golden rearing horse that gives this villa its name is more than a sculpture, it set the tone for the entire interior. Once we understood how much that single piece meant to the client, every material decision followed from it: the warmth of the cognac lacquer, the glint of brass, the movement in the stone. The most technically demanding element was the curved lacquered joinery. Flowing horizontal curves like these are notoriously difficult to fabricate and finish without visible seams, and they only succeed when the team drawing them is the same team installing them. That single-team control is why the reveals are clean, the book matched onyx aligns perfectly, and the whole villa reads as one composition, inside and out.