Ensuite Dreams

When shooting a home, one would typically expect the usual assortment of rooms. You know, a kitchen, dining room, living room, and maybe a study and a couple of bedrooms and bathrooms, that sort of thing. But when New Yorker, Lesley Reich commissioned me to shoot her latest creation in Chelsea, the brief was to shoot just the 7 bathrooms, oh and the master bedroom. Yes, that's right, 7 bathrooms. The rest of this 6 storey home is still awaiting the finishing touches, but there was plenty of detail in those bathrooms to keep me busy. While each was unique, the common thread linking them all was the use of distinctive finishes for the shower screens. From intense rust-red marble, through to resin panels, filled with the ethereal twigs of the honesty plant, in the case of the master bathroom, and purple petals in the daughter's own ensuite. 

Master Bedroom & Bathroom

The Children's Bathrooms

The Guest Bathrooms

These images will in due course be included on Lesley's own site which is under construction. As soon as it is up and running, I will post a link here.

Shower Pods

Here's a space saving idea; an ensuite bathroom that's actually in the bedroom. This solution came to the architect, Peter Bell, as a way of getting round the thorny issue of the building's listed status, which meant that subdividing the room was not acceptable. German manufacturers, Rosskopf brought the elegant idea to life. Much as I like the idea, a bit of frosted glass wouldn't go amiss.

As an alternative, how about this hulking bit of a tree, in a bathroom designed by Brenda Gibson BIID.