{"id":608919,"date":"2026-09-23T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608919\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:58:15","slug":"alba-apartment-by-scott-weston-architecture-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608919\/","title":{"rendered":"Alba Apartment by Scott Weston Architecture and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Weston Architecture and Design (SWAD) explored assertive colour and rich materiality in an inner-city apartment for nightclub owner Susannah Page. Faced with an uninspiring shell, Alba Apartment answers with a dramatic sense of wonder. As Scott says, \u201cI\u2019m not one to shy away from weaving colour, pattern and decoration into my architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The interior\u2019s first impression is arresting: a pearlescent seven-metre Zellige glazed tile wall and walnut joinery panels forming the backdrop to the stair, where a cascading raspberry-pink rug in an \u2018Oriente Italiano\u2019 inspired motif pools at its base in an organic puddle-like form. It is a soft counterpoint to the perforated steel stringer and deep red-stained timber treads.<\/p>\n

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Rich walnut veneer cladding continues through the apartment, with a concealed pivot door opening onto a hall that evokes something like the world of Narnia. Along it sits an ensuite finished in \u2018Pigeon Grey\u2019 tile on one side and \u2018Arsenic Green\u2019 on the other. The sequence culminates in Susannah\u2019s bedroom, where a marble headboard doubles as a shelf for one of Linde Ivimey\u2019s talismanic figurative sculptures. A custom salmon-pink bed cover in woven wool complements the bed base.<\/p>\n

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At the opposite end of the apartment, SWAD removed the second bedroom for space and natural light, folding the client\u2019s wardrobe behind sleek green cabinetry and absorbing it into the entry vestibule. \u201cIt\u2019s a tight recipe, and we were working with a client who\u2019s very disciplined, like us,\u201d adds Scott.<\/p>\n

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Climbing the perforated steel stair, you arrive opposite a grey-lilac gloss-tiled dining island, with walnut veneer containing the kitchen and a quartzite surround to the cooktop and exhaust. \u201cThe quartzite has a beige-tan colour mixed with huge, almost oversized pebbles sliced from the slab, in deep purples and lilacs,\u201d says Scott. \u201cIt all marries together seamlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The element of surprise continues: one door opens to reveal the integrated fridge, the other conceals a guest powder room finished in micro-mosaic red tiles, with an eye peering through a keyhole created from matching black-and-white tiles. \u201cIt\u2019s all backlit \u2013 half the mirror on one wall, half on the perpendicular wall. When you open that door and turn on the light, there\u2019s this quite fractured perspective going on; it\u2019s a homage to nightclubs and colour-saturated lighting,\u201d says Scott.<\/p>\n

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In the living room, SWAD wrapped the walls in saturated red silk wallpaper and fitted a custom sofa in Paul Smith\u2019s Kvadrat fabric, set against the grey-lilac\u2019s more monastic, minimalist forms in the kitchen. A custom wall-to-wall rug enriches the palette further in deep russet on a burnt-sienna ground. <\/p>\n

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Alba Apartment is the result of an ongoing relationship; a history of two personalities finding harmony in the details and a confident expression. \u201cSusannah is a very particular character \u2026 so we were going to custom-tailor an apartment that\u2019s hand-stitched onto [her] and suits [her] as a person, rather than sitting in a space with no correlation to who she was.\u201d Scott concludes, \u201cI\u2019ve always done it inherently \u2013 that\u2019s part and parcel of my DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Weston Architecture and Design (SWAD) explored assertive colour and rich materiality in an inner-city apartment for nightclub…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-608919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}