A warm living room with a long stone fireplace, a low bouclé sofa around a marble table and a dining room beyond

Project No. 01, 2025

Marlow House

Hampstead, London

Location: Hampstead, London
Completed: 2025
Type: Family residence
Area: 410 m²

A family house rebuilt behind its brick facade, where one long room runs from a stone fireplace to the dining table at the back.

The family wanted to live in one room. We took out the floors between the old front and back parlours and made a single space, eight metres deep, that steps gently down from the dining table to the fire.

The fireplace wall is a single run of honed limestone, three metres tall, set flush with the plaster around it so it reads as part of the house rather than a feature added to it. A low bouclé sofa wraps the corner, deep enough to sleep on, and the marble table is heavy enough that nobody moves it.

Afternoon light comes through a screen of slim oak fins on the west side. We planned every lamp around the hour after it goes, so the room glows from the fire, the shelves and a single line of light above the table.

Material list

What the rooms are made of.

01Honed limestoneFireplace wall, one quarry, book matched
02Grigio marbleCoffee table, solid block, leathered
03Wool boucléSofa and armchair, undyed and tobacco
04Smoked oakWall panelling and slatted screen

The living room of Marlow House in late afternoon light — The living room, 5:40 pmFig. 01

Detail of the marble table and bouclé sofa — Grigio marble, leathered finishFig. 02

The limestone fireplace wall — Limestone fire wall, flush with the plasterFig. 03

The dining table beneath a linear light — Dining under a single line of lightFig. 04

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