Every room we take on starts with the same instinct: find what does not need to be there. Negative space is not empty space — it is the pause that lets the pieces you kept actually breathe.
In a recent Naples project, we pulled three pieces out of a living room that read as “crowded but unfinished” and replaced them with one considered vessel and a single branch of olive. The room did not get simpler. It got clearer.
That is the whole practice, really: strip away the noise, keep the piece that is doing real work, and give it room to be seen. A home with intention is rarely a home with more in it.