21/09/2026
One of these bookcases is a door.
The layouts I shared last week are becoming rooms. This is the first of them: a home office in a house in Wimbledon Village, for a client who works here and receives his own clients here.
The bookcase opens into the lounge next door, so a meeting can move from business to conversation without walking anyone back through the house. From the lounge, a staircase down to a pool table, a quieter seating area and the wine cellar.
The oak panelling started with the London members’ club our client has belonged to for years — he wanted the room to feel the way that room feels. You reach it straight from a white panelled entrance hall, which is the point. Light, formal, ceremonial; then a door, and a room that closes around you. Underfoot, reclaimed French oak parquet from Weldon Flooring — timber with a century of use already in it.
Everything you can move is of now. Desk by Giorgetti, chairs by Vitra, including the Eames Lounge Chair by the fire. A Rolf Sachs greets you on the way in, and on the far wall Artist Dimitri Likissas’s Porsche 964 — a car built entirely from painted dots that only resolves when you step back from it.
And overhead, Flying Flames by MORITZ WALDEMEYER and Ingo Maurer: a chandelier of candles in which every flame is an LED. A candle lit by technology, hanging in a panelled room — the whole brief in one fitting.
A home office is rarely about the desk. Done properly it is a route.