Maximum City’s din is virtually impossible to escape. Enter ‘Seijaku’, a Japanese concept that helms the ethos of this 3,000-square-foot Thane abode. A java expert’s dream realised with a penchant for monotones and subtle odes to nature, Soft Serve whips up a deliberately minimalist take on comfort.
A caustic network splashes across the ceiling, a shimmering visual greeting one upon their arrival at the apartment. Flanking the length of the communal spaces, a lap pool levitates, creating a vista that makes one peer into the city’s suburban sprawl from the 29th level.
The living space is imagined as a sequence of circles within a square-like volume, intersecting and sweeping to mark functions — the conversation area, the dining nook, and the coffee hideout.
A ripple’s medley of concentric circles creates a hypnotic visual that radiates from an epicentre. This imagery often comes alive in the home, with curvilinear forms debuting in vignettes of skirting details, inlays, door jambs, and ceiling details.
An ecru hue ribbons its way across the apartment, the visual reminiscent of a gelatinous stack of soufflé-like pancakes. The living area’s heart is embedded with green quartzite in radiating circles, resembling Samon circles in dry landscapes, an intrinsic part of Japanese culture. The jewel-like chips are evocative of quartz remnants washed ashore, waves bringing green-blue dazzling keepsakes from the ocean’s heart. The terrazzo-style inlay pattern amid a sea of beige becomes a visual marker, a detail that is mirrored in the dynamic ceiling-scape.
Warm meals do the rounds across the dining area, illuminated by the 42-inch dome light crafted by Name Place Animal Thing. The sinuous strokes in the table’s Crema Marfil and Federal Beige marble top and on the light’s underside are homages to the works of celebrated illustrator Jane Foster.
A brushstroke of white glides over the kitchen, with sage claiming the base of the peninsula island. The stone countertop slopes inconspicuously, incorporating a shift in heights to facilitate ergonomic function and culminating in a cosy breakfast nook.
The doors to the resting quarters have been designed as artisanal portals, each representing the persona of those who dwell within, in a unified palette of marble architraves, textured paint, and veneers. Taupe envelopes the master suite in its timeless embrace, washing over the shell and design elements. The Movingue White veneer creates abstract patterns in the arched headboard, polished to various degrees to articulate visual depth. Scalloped motifs stamp their presence along the bay window, gazing into the pool’s languid views. Blush-toned micro-concrete swathes the master bath, veined Corteccia marble forming the monolithic vanity, the stone trickling onto the flooring as fluted skirting.
For their sons, the bedrooms revel in celebrating hero hues: electric green and steel blue. The tonal play of the parent colour washes over the room’s elements cohesively. Their bathrooms serve a tessellated play of squares, forming a morphing matrix of 1x1, 2x2, and 4x4 ceramic tiles.
Evocative of a tropical retreat, the parent’s bedroom explores minimalism with an appetite for character. The printed wallpaper meets a curved pelmet and descends as a wardrobe with sinuous edge details. The Konya Grey marble in the bathroom homogeneously reigns the ensuite bath, its ingrained pattern inciting visual movement.