Since Max Buston Design was founded it has had a string of residential and commercial projects under its bow. The company has a core in-house team on one hand, and a flurry of reputable architects and builders on the other.
Strong architecture runs through all of Max's work. He starts with symmetry and proportion, and architectural features, to enable an interior to be enhanced by its core, building on the best that it has. The use of colour, pattern and vibrancy, seen in Max's work, is his key attribute. Pulling these elements together he creates an atmosphere and depth to his work.
The range of work Max does varies greatly, from colourful classicism to contemporary chic. His approach is always with strength and definition.
Max is based in Devon and has a showroom and studio on Richmond Hill in Richmond.
"Colourful, daring and atmospheric."
"Images 1-2. The house was stripped back to its bare bones with moving walls, adding new walls, ceilings and the roof, and so we had to reinstate historical mouldings, architraves, dados and cornice, sensitive to the period property. We created a hierarchy of spaces by using different scales of mouldings, including between the living room, kitchen and dining room which was extended; they each have a different cornice. The hall has yet a grander scheme with dentil decoration and gold-painted vine leaves. We also created a hierarchy between floors; the mouldings are simplified by the time you get to the top floor.
We used different luminosity of paints throughout the house. The mouldings are painted in high-gloss and a lot of gold paint was used for added reflectivity. In the kitchen, the walls themselves are also in high-gloss like a lacquer. When you get to the top floor, however, the walls are dead matt, and the whole atmosphere changes, to one of calmness.
Although a lot of the colours in the house are very strong – the ground floor is covered in yellow, green, red and gold - they are at the same time calm and liveable. The base colours are clays. The lighting is very soft, lit with a multitude of table and wall lights. Mirrors are used to widen the windows in the living room and kitchen, to bounce daylight and reflections around the rooms.
Image 3. The Richmond showroom and design studio.
Image 4. A penthouse in Aldgate"
Andrew Twort
