Located in the heart of North Sydney, this residence is shaped around the dialogue between two materials that carry an inherent sense of breath:

Travertine stone and rattan cane.

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Travertine holds the quiet gravity of the earth.

Its natural voids and sediment layers reveal a slow geological breath—weighty, grounded, and formed over time.

Rattan, by contrast, is the breath of hands and plants.

Soft, warm, and woven into rhythm, it brings a human tactility that settles gently into the space.

In this project, these two materials meet in a deliberate contrast: the hardness of stone and the softness of weave; the naturally formed and the hand-crafted.