For our newest lookbook, we have collected eight window seats in houses internationally together with intelligent custom-made options in wooden and concrete.
By putting in a window seat, inside designers do not simply add additional seating to a room, additionally they create a peaceable house that can be utilized for contemplation and leisure.
Whether or not it features as a small nook for studying, a settee for socialising and even as a daybed, these tasks showcase how the built-in furnishings piece has been utilized in houses from Denmark to China.
That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which gives visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes interiors created on a funds, immersive saunas and light-filled kitchens.
Nicolai Paris, France, by NOA
This Community of Structure-designed Marais condominium inside a transformed lodge has been outfitted with a choice of custom-made oak furnishings. In the lounge, a trendy built-in window seat was designed to operate as each seating and cupboard space.
Its curved form was enhanced by the addition of black-leather cushions and pillows, which distinction the unadorned white partitions and the bleached oak parquet with its ornamental chevron sample.
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Villa Wienberg, Denmark, by Wienberg Architects and Friis & Moltke
Along with studio Friis & Moltke, Danish architects Mette and Martin Wienberg gave this Nineteen Forties cottage an overhaul to show it into a house for their very own household.
The home has wood panelling all through and within the residing house, the fabric was additionally used to kind a low-slung window seat that features as a bench across the room. Cosy pillows and a sheepskin add consolation.
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Maison Jericho, France, by Olivia Fauvelle Structure
This outbuilding in Marseille was refurbished and prolonged by French studio Olivia Fauvelle Structure. In the lounge, a concrete window seat was added to assist create a connection between the indoors and open air.
It overlooks a tiled terrace with a pool and is topped with a leather-based daybed to create a restful house. A wood-burning range hangs above the window seat, including heat to the room.
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Puppeteers Home, Portugal, by REDO Architects
REDO Architects was impressed by stage units when designing Puppeteers Home in Sintra, Portugal, which options wood joinery constructions meant to evoke theatrical scenography.
This features a curved wood bench that features as a window seat on the first-floor touchdown, the place it’s matched by wood panelling.
“We used a exact quarter of a circle as a instrument – like a compass – in numerous radii, orientations, mixtures and materialities,” REDO Architects founder Diogo Figueiredo instructed Dezeen.
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Ell Home, Canada, by Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio
The built-in window seat within the Ell Home vacation house in Wellington gives its house owners with a picturesque view of Lake Ontario.
The outside of the home was clad in cedar that was charred utilizing the Japanese yakisugi technique whereas the inside options contrasting gentle oak millwork.
The identical wooden was additionally used to kind a window seat within the bed room, which options clear strains and has a cushion for added consolation.
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Muswell Hill house, UK, by Structure for London
British studio Structure for London designed this house in north London for its founder Ben Ridley. Situated in an Edwardian home that hadn’t been renovated for nearly 40 years, it was designed to be energy-saving and constructed utilizing pure supplies.
A comfy window seat constructed from gray limestone might be discovered within the kitchen, the place it connects to a storage cupboard constructed from pale oak.
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U-Form Room, China, by Atelier Tao + C
U-shaped window seats are extra uncommon than rectangular ones. However on this Chinese language house, the architects had little selection because the constructing is dominated by an enormous, rounded bay window.
Studio Atelier Tao+C added a curved plywood seat that additionally has storage areas. It matches a two-storey plywood quantity that homes all of the useful rooms of the condominium.
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The Yellow Home within the Apple Backyard, Norway, by Familien Kvistad
This renovated Nineteen Fifties home in Oslo was given a vibrant inside by regionally primarily based duo Familien Kvistad and in addition options “an abundance of wooden”.
Whereas window seats are often positioned underneath giant home windows, right here the designers selected so as to add one beneath the smaller, rectangular kitchen window. The lengthy bench is constructed from ash and has sensible cupboard space hidden beneath a darkish inexperienced cushion seat.
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That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which gives visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes interiors created on a funds, immersive saunas and light-filled kitchens.
