Field Notes: Tatu City — Stone, Sage and a Coffered Ceiling

Tatu City is the kind of project we relish: a full residence where the exterior envelope and the interior joinery are trusted to one team, so every threshold, reveal and shadow line is resolved by people who talk to each other daily.

Outside: dressing the facade in stone

Natural stone is unforgiving. Each piece is dressed by hand on site and dry-laid before fixing, so the coursing reads as one continuous composition rather than a jigsaw of leftovers.

Inside: the media wall and display column

The entrance storage wall does three jobs in four metres: coats and shoes behind flush white doors, a lit black display column for the objects that deserve light, and a floating oak bench for the daily ritual of arriving home.

The kitchen, mid-install

Sage-green cabinetry against book-matched marble is a pairing we will defend forever. The splashback slabs were sequence-matched at the yard and the cabinet grid was set out from the vein line, not the corner of the room.

The ceiling that closes the composition

The living space is crowned by a coffered ceiling with concealed LED coves. On a walkthrough it reads as calm, continuous light with no visible source — which is precisely the point.

We will publish the full case study once the furniture reveal is done. Until then, the gallery holds the best frames from this site.