00:03This building is located in the center of Amsterdam along the canals in the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00:13This building has about 10 units and all of the units are about 20 square meters.
00:18And this particular unit is about 15.8 square meters.
00:30So the client's brief was to have a pierre terre that they could come to, enjoy, relax and wine with
00:35the comforts of home, but in a luxury setting.
00:39It was very important to have a color palette that was warm and comfortable.
00:45And that's something that I think ties with the Dutch spirit of gzellekheid, which is comfort and coziness.
00:52We kept the floor plan as it was.
00:54One of the challenges was being an old building. There were no parallel lines.
00:59We tried to follow the periphery of the walls and clean it up so that it would have a nice,
01:03straight and clean, streamlined look.
01:05We wanted to accomplish a luxury feeling with all of the amenities as the client wished and also having it
01:14be quiet and clean and comfortable.
01:17We also played with different luxury materials and different finishes and focus on aspects of art to bring focal points
01:26throughout the experience of the space.
01:28We used the frame TV from Samsung along with also a frame piece of art from Kasper Fassen so that
01:35it would integrate as an art wall.
01:39The window seat serves many functions from having dinner to relaxing with a glass of wine to also just enjoying
01:46the city outside the window.
01:49There is enough space. If someone wanted to lay down and sleep, they could as well.
01:54Important for the design is the use of high quality leather, integrating the heating, and also having storage underneath to
02:03allow for extra functionality.
02:08The client choose to have a bed that was always open and not to have a bed that tucks away
02:13into the wall.
02:14In the bedroom, the bed head has a gunmetal frame with a velvet upholstery that creates a bit of warmth
02:21as well as elegance that refers back to sort of the elegance of the building itself.
02:27We've integrated a lot of outlets behind a lot of cabinet doors so that it has no visual clutter. We
02:34want it to be clean and neat.
02:37The kitchen, the materials we used were a millwork wood finish with push to open cabinets.
02:43The key focal point is being the onyx niche where you have a completely integrated onyx sink.
02:51There is an induction cooktop with two burners integrated. There's a wine cooler integrated.
02:59Being centrally located in the city, the idea wasn't to have full meals necessarily here.
03:07For the bathroom, we wanted it to be a really special space with fully enclosing it with marble.
03:13Because the bathroom is one unified space, we created a moment for a piece of art.
03:19And it was done expressly asymmetrical so that it could be visible from the access to the shower area.
03:29The marble millwork hides all of the extra storage for shampoo and your toilet paper dispenser. That's all concealed.
03:37The door to go into the bathroom is very thick and that serves two functions.
03:42One in order to provide a bit of privacy as well as integrating the stone on the wall.
03:48We tried to maximize the amount of storage. So we have storage not only in the cabinetry within the kitchen,
03:54but as well under the bed and under the window seat.
03:59A big thing for us in this old building was also to respect the past and to try and introduce
04:04a way to bring a more modern way of construction into the interior.
04:09You have on the ceiling, for example, the beams with a shiny gloss and then the ceiling as a satin
04:15to create a bit of a contrast and also to articulate sort of the charm of the old characteristics of
04:20this old building.
04:23The technology in this apartment was really important for the client. They wanted to have it as integrated as possible.
04:30There's one screen that controls all of the lighting and the heating and including an integrated subwoofer that's concealed behind
04:38the millwork and the roll shades as well.
04:42I think it's absolutely important to consider repurposing old buildings and old spaces.
04:48This is a great example of how that can be done even at 15.8 square meters.
04:55The value of living in a city is you have these great amenities outside your window.
05:00You have the greatest living room you could ever want on the canals in the city of Amsterdam.
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