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Mark Tuckey Coastal Living
For more than three decades, Mark Tuckey has been creating consciously crafted furniture that celebrates the imperfect nature of solid and reclaimed timber. Imbued with the timber’s distinctive grain and weave, the brand’s furniture has a character that can’t be repeated.
Select Mark Tuckey pieces add immeasurably to the subtle beauty of Marianne House, the first completed work of Victoria Merrett Architecture. Here, Victoria Merrett looked to the site’s natural features, including moonah trees and tussock grass, to inform her design decisions. “The aim was to create a house that preserves the original character and natural features of the site,” she says of creating an extension to a home in the coastal enclave of Rye on the Mornington Peninsula.
The project is grounded in warm, beige-toned bricks and walnut-stained blackbutt timber. Mark Tuckey furniture in reclaimed and sustainably sourced hardwood brings a sense of robust beauty to the light-filled open-plan living and dining space, where a vaulted ceiling forms a dramatic canopy and “pays homage to the existing house and the architectural vernacular of the peninsula”.
The refined lines of the Slab dining table (in the brand’s latest timber offering, Creamy Oak) complement this feature perfectly. The Open Plinth sofa and matching chair – in recycled oregon, with linen upholstery in muted shades of eucalyptus and charcoal respectively– add a sense of relaxed comfort, the classic plinth base forming the perfect grounding. The sofa and chair surround one of Tuckey’s most timeless designs, the low-slung Oxo coffee table, whose circular top (the ‘O’) is supported by sturdy crisscrossing legs (the ‘X’).
Select Mark Tuckey pieces add immeasurably to the subtle beauty of Marianne House, the first completed work of Victoria Merrett Architecture.
Each piece is made at the company’s workshop in Melbourne, where traditional manufacturing processes and time-honoured craftsmanship are as valued as the timber that forms the heart and soul of the brand.
By often working with materials that would most likely end up in landfill and employing considered design principles that allow the timber to headline, Mark Tuckey’s Australian-designed and -made furniture embodies the hallmarks of integrity, durability and strength, with sustainability at their core.
Architecture by Victoria Merrett Architecture. Build by Momentum Building Group.
