The practice
One studio for the
whole of a place.
Most projects are handed between an architect, an interior designer, a landscaper and a contractor — and lose something at every handover. We hold all of it: the plan, the palette, the garden, the light at seven in the evening, and the joinery detail that decides whether a room feels finished or merely furnished.
We work on a small number of projects at a time, in three studios that share one material library and one set of standards. Whether it is a family house, a boutique hotel or ninety apartments, the same principals stay on it from first sketch to the day the doors open.
Three studios
Divided by discipline. Never by project.
Selected work
Places we have finished.
Filter by studio or by who we built it for. Open any project to see the brief, the scope and what changed.
Harmony
The same room.
The same light.
Nothing structural moved here. We repaired the plaster, corrected the colour temperature of every lamp, replaced three pieces of furniture and left the parquet exactly as it was. Harmony is mostly subtraction.
Material library
Everything is chosen in the hand first.
Two thousand samples, catalogued by how they age rather than how they photograph. Touch a marker on the board to see what we specified on this project.
Tap any marker on the sample board to read what it is and where it went.
How it runs
Five stages, one team throughout.
The studio
Twenty-two people.
One material library.
Phenomenon was founded in 2008 above a joinery workshop, which is still where we prototype. Today the studio holds architects, interior designers, a landscape team and two full-time makers who build the details nobody can source.
Every project has a named principal who is in the room at the first meeting and on site at handover. That is the whole management philosophy; there is nothing else to it.
Journal
What we are thinking about.
Enquiries
Tell us about the place.
We take on nine projects at a time, so the first conversation is honest about whether we are the right studio and whether the timing works. No charge, no pitch deck.
One of the principals will write back within two working days — with a straight answer about fit and timing.