Timeless and Enduring Gestures – Blue Balmoral by Esoteriko Interiors
Born from a simple brief to improve functionality, Balmoral Blue evolved into a process of increasing connection, natural light and spaciousness. Esoteriko Interiors brings a highly detailed and refreshingly contemporary approach to the design through bold, timeless and enduring gestures.
Balmoral Blue had seen many iterations over its years, and Esoteriko Interior’s approach was to combine all of these through a contemporary and relevant lens. Initially commencing from a simple brief to improve the functionality of the home for the clients, after rigorous consultation, the approach evolved to address the home’s internal connection, increase access to natural light and create a greater sense of spaciousness. Opening up the internal rooms and volumes, Esoteriko Interiors imbues the home with both a greater sense of connection and ease of movement throughout. And, through the employment of bold gestures and a monolithic approach, a timeless and enduring series of gestures unfolds, further elevated through highly detailed and a fresh contemporary approach.
Esoteriko Interiors brings a highly detailed and refreshingly contemporary approach to the design through bold, timeless and enduring gestures.
With the home subject to many amendments over the years, the original 1920s detailing had been removed and replaced with an anachronistic Tuscan-style in the 1990s. Grounded on its original sandstone footings, the home was in desperate need of a clear and concise aesthetic and functional direction for its future. Esoteriko Interiors comprised a palette responding to the Australian landscape, through local New South Wales sandstone and South Australian blackbutt timber, while also taking in references from Japanese design principles of simplicity and minimalism.
Built by Fairweather Constructions, the overall aesthetic draws inspiration from its client, expressed through a series of refined and minimal sensibilities. The elements of blue dotted throughout add a coolness and allow for a sense of relief from the warm timber and natural stone used throughout. These colours reference the deep and moody adjacent ocean and the warm and rich colours found in the land. As an extension of this, the insertion of Australian-made pieces of furniture, artwork and objects not only connect the home to its context, but also reinforce the importance and relevance of place as the client’s first Australian home.
The overall approach, in creating a cohesive and responsive home, was to propose Balmoral Blue as a home that also acts as a retreat. Through applying an understanding of space, natural light and materiality, Esoteriko Interiors challenges the trending formal and volumetric proposals currently circulating. The result is a home that speaks to its client and expresses a refreshing and enduring contemporaneity.
