Signature Villa Saroma
Architecture, interiors and bespoke joinery for a villa in Sala: a kitchen in dark lacquer, gold leaf and walnut laid as a sunburst.
- Property
- Villa
- Location
- Sala, Thu Thiem, Ho Chi Minh City
- Scope
- Architecture, Interior design, Bespoke manufacturing, Turnkey
- Spaces
- Kitchens, Living rooms, Dining rooms, Bars
The brief
One room in which to cook, to take breakfast and to receive friends, without the cooking line taking over the room.
The kitchen sits at the centre of the ground floor, open to the garden through tall glazed doors. We drew it as one composition rather than a run of units: dark lacquered cabinetry to the ceiling, two islands set end to end, and a single piece of walnut at the centre of the room to give the eye somewhere to rest.
That piece is a pair of tall doors in walnut veneer, laid as a sunburst so the grain radiates from the meeting stile. Fluted glass cabinets stand either side, and the same dark lacquer runs above, so the doors read as one panel set into the wall.
The cooking island is topped in black stone with white veining. The table that runs from it is white stone with grey veining, falling to the floor at its far end. A change of height between the two separates the place where food is prepared from the place where people sit.
Design decisions
- Ovens and the coffee machine are set flush in one tall column, aligned to the cabinet joints, rather than spread along the room.
- One feature material to each axis: the walnut sunburst on one, the metal contour panels above the cooking line on the other. Everything else stays dark and quiet.
- Two levels at the island: a working surface in dark stone, and a table in white stone with room for five at breakfast.
- A fine metal line is let into the edge of every lacquered door, so the cabinetry has a frame without mouldings.
Craft and materials
- Walnut veneer cut in matched leaves and laid as a sunburst on the tall doors.
- Cabinetry lacquered in deep charcoal, each door framed by an inlaid metal line.
- Metal panels drawn with contour lines above the cooking line, repeated on the front of the island.
- Black stone with white veining on the cooking island; white stone with grey veining on the table, with a waterfall end.
- Fluted glass in the cabinets either side of the walnut doors.
Related work
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