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Art - led design and high end cinema room for luxury home

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This was a collaborative project with award-winning interior designer Katie Malik. Our client worked with Katie to realise their design ideas and we worked with Katie and her team to bring those designs to life.

"The client is a fellow Frenchman," explains Chardome founder Valentin Chardome. "We had worked with him on his previous house in Cambridgeshire, and now that he was moving, he wanted us to work on his new home."

The house is part of a new high-end modern three-home development in Cambridgeshire. The focus of the project was on four key rooms: cinema room, bespoke home office, dining room and living room.

BESPOKE HOME OFFICE

"The clients ran a successful business and wanted a fully functioning bespoke home office that offered everything their business' HQ offered in terms of space and technology. More than just the kitchen table and a laptop."

"Katie had worked up the overall design and we worked on specific challenges such as the printer drawer which needed special attention due to leads and access," explains Valentin. "We love this kind of design challenge: how to take a beautiful design and ensure that it can function elegantly in the real world."

The cabinets are all spray - finished apart from the nice design touch of two oak drawers. All offset by the beautiful exposed wood floor. There's also an elegant balance of cabinets with doors at the base and open shelving at the top - a perfect meeting of form and function.

BESPOKE CINEMA ROOM

The client wanted an all-singing, all-dancing cinema room and that is exactly what they got. This beautiful space included a large 85-inch screen, integrated speakers (sprayed the same colour as the walls) and responsive lighting - all sunken into the main unit for an elegant flush finish and clean appearance.

The sound bar was also designed to fit.

The room was designed to mirror motifs from the world-famous Ivy restaurant in Cambridge - in particular the yellow fabric panels with brass inlay around the edge, all made by Chardome.

There are also some cabinets with doors to hide away DVD's, balanced with open shelves for display.

BESPOKE DISPLAY UNIT

"This bespoke display unit was designed with the beautiful whale at its centre," explains Valentin. "The unit has some big, deep drawers at its base for storage. Above that are open units (left), a cosy seat (centre) and a hidden bar (right)."

The units symmetry is only broken by the hidden bar which sits neatly behind two pocket doors.

This is another great example of functional design: while breaking up the space and adding visual elements from shelves to art, it also offers hidden storage and an extra seat.

BESPOKE SIDEBOARD

"The sideboard is as much a piece of art as it is a piece of furniture," says Valentin.

The cabinet was designed to complement the seascape painting by Lucy Young that would sit on the wall above it.

"We used a beautiful piece of Bird's Eye Maple veneer which gives this bespoke luxury sideboard an iridescent quality - as if you can almost see into it. A suggestion of depth.

"The piece was made by our director, Jonathan Chardome. He laid the veneer onto the backing, sectioned it and then fit the stainless steel inlays."

The veneer is also grain-matched. This is where we cut adjacent doors and sections from the same piece of material so that the grain continues across each door and is matched across the different sections of the steel inlays also - a delicate and time-consuming craft. "It really is a unique piece."

Explore more luxury furniture products by Chardome for tips and inspiration, or if you're looking for bespoke luxury furniture in Norfolk, Cambridge or beyond, contact Chardome on 01223 651056 or email us at enquiries@chardome.co.uk.