The Avila COLLECTION

A home is not a neutral container. A home is a character.

Narrative luxury interiors. Wellington, Florida.

A plum velvet sofa against white panelled walls, with floral and velvet cushions around a central eye cushion, a brass geometric coffee table and a dark patterned rug.

The residence

A single Wellington house, worked room by room over successive phases. The rooms below are chapters of one property, not separate commissions.

Corner of a carved gilt mirror above a hand-painted floral wall stencil in blue, green and rust on a plaster wall.

The tension

A room should reveal who lives there.

A carved gilt mirror set against a hand-painted floral stencil, drawn straight onto plaster. Gilt against bare wall, ornament against restraint: the two hold each other in tension rather than matching.

Character accumulates this way, one deliberate decision at a time, each answering the one beside it. A house treated as a container gets filled. A house treated as a character gets written.

View from the plum dining room through a tall arched opening into the panelled living room beyond, with a crystal chandelier in the foreground.

The method

Architecture leads. Styling follows.

Work begins with thresholds, framing, millwork, volume and sequence. Material and object choices answer to that structure, not the other way round.

How a project is built

Selected work

Rooms of the residence

Rooms and details from the founder's Wellington residence, developed over successive phases.

All work

Explore a remote design study

Concept imagery

Rooms as a direction

Generated visualizations used to set the character of a room before anything is chosen. They are not photographs of completed projects.

Design visualization of a living room: a cream slipcovered sofa with plum and green velvet cushions, a pair of green velvet armchairs, a dark coffee table on a worn Persian rug, a stone fireplace, and an arched opening to a dining room lit by a brass pendant.

Living room

Design visualization

Concept image. Not a completed project.

Design visualization of a salon: a curved green velvet sofa beneath a gallery wall of gilt-framed portraits and landscapes, a round black marble coffee table, a cream bouclé chair and a burgundy velvet armchair.

Salon

Design visualization

Concept image. Not a completed project.

Design visualization of a residence where a beamed living room with a black marble fireplace and arched windows opens through a dark doorway into a bedroom with a canopy bed, velvet throw and brass sconce.

Residential design · living room and primary bedroom

Design visualization

Concept image of connected rooms. Not a completed project.

Design visualization of an evening interior: candlelight in a living room with a marble coffee table and bronze bust, opening through a wide arch to a dining room under a candle chandelier, with a dusk sky beyond an arched window.
Design visualization

Evening concept. Generated imagery, not a photograph of a completed project.

Begin with a reading of the house.

Tell me about the property and what you want it to become.