ALEXANDER & CO: Pacific House
Alexander & Co.'s Pacific House project has seen a disconnected and unappealing 90s home, reimagined into a contemporary, European-inspired family home, that is firmly anchored within it's striking clifftop setting. With a focus on interesting forms, we injected a palette of rich, earthy colours and natural materials that harmonise with the textural finishes throughout.
Styling by Claire Delmar of Studio CD
Architecture and Interior Design by Alexander & Co.
Photography by Anson Smart
"An expressive use of stone combines with warm timber elements, all uniting through a carefully crafted hand, with every tactile and moment of engagement considered." – The Local Project
Sydney-based design studio Alexander &CO. draw on a concrete clifftop home’s “invisible charisma” to carve out a new story that reflects the family that lives there. “Substantial in structure but devoid of spirit” is how Alexander &CO. director Jeremy Bull personifies this ’90s clifftop home in Sydney’s East. Admitting the home “wasn’t saying very much” when they first visited the site, Jeremy and his team set out to tell a story that’s both personal and genuine – an exercise that underpins Alexander & CO.’s revered residential design approach.
Recognising its structural clarity and integrity, the Alexander &CO. team proposed a materially-rich evolution for the built form and its surroundings, drawing on the homeowner’s European “Story of Origin”, the dramatic coastal environment and the ebbs and flows of family life. And with this coalescence of place and influence, Jeremy happily admits, “The building is once again breathing and quite alive”.
– Est Living
“There is this beautiful sense of the floor being both important, materially valuable, and yet relaxed, worn in, lived upon. It is a thousand trips to the Duomo, worn foot fall crosses the church threshold.”
– Jeremy Bull, Alexander & Co.
STYLING EDIT SUPPLIED BY
The DEA Store, Saint Cloche, Space Furniture, Alessandro Disarno Ceramic, Alberto Ferretti – Becker Minty, Case 22, Olsen Gallery, Tigmi Trading, Graziela Guardino, Carol Crawford, Dinosaur Designs, Daniel Boddam, Redfern Art Gallery, Tara Shackell, Tow and Line, Studio Elke, Cultiver, KeZu, Casa by Kate Nixon, East Wing Studio, Project Gallery 90, Dimitri Vargas, Fanuli, Est Lighting, M Contemporary, Great Dane Furniture, Montmartre Store, Polite Society.