Oxblood leather wingback chair beside a lit fireplace in a dark panelled sitting room

Lahore, Pakistan · 2025

Residence on the Canal

A family house on the Canal. Remade as a private gallery for 3 generations.

The brief

The client is a Lahore industrial family. 3 generations share the house. They wanted one home, not three. The Canal side was theirs first. Now it had to hold everyone.

The house is a 1990s build. Tall rooms, good bones, tired finishes. A double-height sitting room faces the water. Every finish had aged the same shade. Nothing held the eye.

The constraint was the family itself. Nobody moves out during works. We built in phases, room by room. Dust sheets became part of life. The programme ran 9 months.

The approach

The idea was a gallery of rooms. Each room holds one commissioned piece. Everything else is quiet around it. Walls went to a deep bronze plaster. Floors were relaid in American walnut.

The dining room carries the Heritage table. 10 seats in solid walnut, a brass line along the apron. The Heritage sideboard sits beneath a Meridian chandelier. In the sitting room, 2 Heritage wing chairs. A Solace sofa faces the Canal. The Solace rug ties the floor together.

Install took 11 days. Each piece arrived crated from our Lahore workshop. The chandelier was hung last, at dusk. The family ate at the table that night.

Interior design
Bespoke furniture
Lighting
Joinery

Before and after

Before · awaiting photographyAfter

Dark panelled drawing room with mustard wingback armchairs, red drapes and a chandelier
Dining room with a long dark table, burgundy velvet chairs and clustered glass pendants
Formal dining table with silver candelabra and crystal glassware before leaded windows
Looking down an oval stairwell with a mahogany handrail to a black and white checkerboard floor
Scalloped charcoal velvet headboard beneath gilt-framed paintings on a warm ochre wall
Large crystal and gilt chandelier photographed from directly below against a dark ceiling
Grey marble freestanding bateau bathtub with a white towel, walnut wood panelling behind