You enter the apartment on the upper of three floors, through a set of tasteful yet unassuming double doors, and arrive in a grand entrance hall where your eyes are immediately drawn to a free-floating triple-height staircase; behind it, a 12 metre-high bas relief depicts, in intricate detail, the leaves and branches of an olive tree. The relief, which continues down all three floors, was created by SHH and finishes expert DKT.
The entrance hallway is lined with a palette of natural materials in neutral and soft brown shades: a palette that has been applied to every surface, from the grey and chocolate-coloured stones of the floor and skirting to the polished plaster walls and bronze panels of the ceiling. Layers of lighting offer a range of settings designed to change the mood subtly when required, through a combination of wall-lights, inset ceiling spots and strip lighting, as well as a backlit bronze panel in the centre of the space. For the ceiling, SHH worked with Seamless Industries to create specially-perforated bronze panels featuring a continuation of the olive tree motif.