05 · Penthouse
The Regent Penthouse
A monolithic marble wall, a low horizon of furniture, and thirty kilometres of city held behind glass.
- Location
- Delhi, India
- Year
- 2025
- Area
- 380 m²
- Duration
- 20 months
A developer’s shell with an extraordinary view and no character whatsoever. The client wanted the view to remain the protagonist — and everything else to recede.
A single seven-metre wall of book-matched Grigio Carnico became the room’s only gesture. Furniture was kept below 680mm so the horizon is never interrupted. Nothing else was permitted above waist height.
- Interior architecture
- Bespoke stonework
- Art curation
- Turnkey delivery
- Graphite#2A2A2C
- Taupe#8E8375
- Bone#EDE7DD
- Bronze#7A5F3C
- Grigio Carnico marble
- Book-matched, 20mm, seven metres
- Basalt flooring
- Flame-textured, 1200mm plank format
- Taupe wool flannel
- Upholstery, woven in Yorkshire
- Bronze
- Hand-patinated door furniture
A shell with a horizon
The apartment arrived as bare concrete with one asset: an uninterrupted thirty-kilometre view west. Everything we did afterwards was in service of that.
Below the horizon line
A 680mm ceiling of furniture height was imposed across the whole apartment. Sofas, consoles, the dining table, even the kitchen island — all sit beneath the eye.
One wall, one decision
We reviewed forty-one blocks before selecting the Grigio Carnico. The book-match runs across seven metres and four openings without a break in the vein.
Cut once
The slabs were dry-laid in the quarry, photographed, digitally mapped and then cut a single time. There was no margin for a second attempt.
The room at dusk
For roughly twenty minutes each evening, the marble and the sky reach the same value. The apartment was designed for those twenty minutes.
“Everyone said the view would be enough. Nesva understood that a view needs a room to be seen from.”
- Interior Architecture
- Nesva Studio
- Stone Consultancy
- Pietra Viva
- Art Curation
- Marguerite Osei
- Photography
- Théo Marchand
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