
Residential
Bali, Indonesia · 2024
Bali, Indonesia
Complete Interior Furnishing
Africa · Japan · Bali · Japandi · Wabi-Sabi
How does one design a Joglo in Bali? The well-trodden path is obvious: reclaimed teak, predictable carvings, the standard tropical tropes. For a client arriving from Africa with a mind full of contradictions and a refusal to be categorised — the obvious was never an option.














This is not a house. It is an atmosphere.
The architectural bones are Balinese. The heartbeat is unmistakably African. Not tribal. Not ethnic. Not a curio cabinet of cultural references. What emerges instead is something far more considered — a warm, sun-drenched palette and tactile earthiness that evokes the African highveld, executed through contemporary artisanal craft. Every piece of furniture reads as a found object: modern in silhouette, raw and alive in its materiality.
Inside, the traditional boundaries of room and hall dissolve entirely. The main living quarters, kitchen, and sleeping sanctuary are conceived as a single breathing volume — partitioned not by walls, but by long, cinematic curtains that fall from ceiling to floor. One pull and the space opens into an airy loft. Another, and it contracts into a draped cocoon of intimacy. The inhabitant controls the architecture with a gesture.
The bathroom occupies a different register altogether. Conceived as a modern-day onsen, it strips away every ornamental impulse to arrive at something meditative: stone, water, and the quality of light. Japan, distilled.
The patio and pool area speak a Japandi dialect — restrained, deliberate, perched above the jungle canopy. Raw-hewn artisanal furniture frames a crystal pool that appears to float at the tree line. Nothing is forced. Everything is considered.
Scandi-Japanese minimalism. Balinese setting. African warmth woven through every grain and shadow.
When a client arrives with too many ideas, the answer is never to subtract. It's to weave them into something that has never existed before.
Designed in Bali. Manufactured in Java.