Buying the property was only the beginning.
The street, the light and the proportions were the reason you bought it. Inside, a layout drawn for another era, waiting to receive yours.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Everything before the furniture.
Layout, circulation and light, redrawn from the survey to the execution drawings. And the cost drawn alongside them, by the same team that will be on site.
Book a meetingTHE WORK
A property is rarely all it could be.
Every property holds a version of itself that never came to be. That is the one we look for. And once it appears, it is hard to believe it was ever anything else.
Looking for Interior Design?The next chapter is still to be lived.
Life has outgrown the floor plan.
A day is made of rituals, and some of them no longer fit where they began. The table that now seats more people, the late afternoon that moved to another room, the hour that still has no place of its own.
What it will become.
A residence that begins to welcome guests. A floor that is no longer an office. A new purpose, within the same walls.
A space that once made sense, rewritten.
A 1942 apartment in Saldanha, and the year it made sense again.
SELECTED WORK
Residential
SILHOUETTE · Interior Architecture
A 3 bedroom apartment in Saldanha, Lisboa
Hospitality
REFÚGIO · Interior Architecture
Évora, Alentejo
Wellness
SOOMA · Interior Architecture
Marinha Grande, Leiria
Residential
CHARMONY · Interior Architecture
Penha de França, Lisboa
Residential
SCULPTIC · Interior Architecture
Intendente, Lisboa
Four decisions, before anything is drawn.
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1. Light and materials
Where light falls is decided by walls and openings, and no finish can correct it later. Only then do we choose what will receive it.
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2. What you feel
The acoustics between rooms. The light at seven in the morning. The sound of a door closing. None of it shows in a photograph, and all of it decides whether a place is good to be in.
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3. Proportion
A floor plan can always fit one more bedroom. It costs the property its proportion, and proportion is the one thing that cannot be added later. When the two are at odds, proportion wins.
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4. Sequence
A floor plan is a set of rooms. A day is a sequence: where you set down what you carry in, where the light finds you.
DRAW. BUILT. WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE.
Most of what a project loses, it loses on the way to site. Here there is no handover: design and construction happen together, with BONDURANT building and in the room from the first meeting.
In the first person.
What our clients say when we’re not in the room.
FAQs
What does interior architecture include?
A survey of what exists, a new plan, and the execution drawings that make it buildable: walls, circulation, ceilings, lighting positions, electrical and plumbing points, joinery, and the details a builder works from. Then supervision on site through to handover.
What is an execution drawing set, and why does it matter?
It is the drawings a builder can build from. Every dimension, every point, every junction resolved on paper rather than decided on site by whoever is standing there. It is the difference between a price that holds and a price that moves.
Do you do structural work?
Where a project requires it, we coordinate with structural engineers and the work is included in the same programme. Nothing structural is decided without them and nothing is left to be discovered once the wall is open.
Do you handle licensing?
Where the intervention requires it, yes. Many interior projects do not, and that is one of the first things the survey establishes, before any fees are committed.
Can you work with me if I live abroad?
Most decisions are made remotely. You see the finished space before it is built, decisions arrive as a small number of options rather than open questions, and someone from the studio is on site so that you do not have to be.
Who builds the project?
BONDURANT, on the construction side, works alongside the drawing from the beginning, which is why the plan and the price are settled together. If you have a contractor you want to keep, we work with them and supervision stays with us.
How is the budget controlled during the works?
Costing runs in parallel with the design, so a change comes back with a price the same week it is proposed. Once on site, variations are priced before they happen, not after.