Name: Greg Natale
Location: Sydney, Australia
For a while now we've loved Greg Natale's work, using amazing patterns, products and colour, he produces some of Australia's most impressive interior design projects. In his own home Greg Natale's lack of both pattern and colour is a complete shock, yet results in an absolute climax of dramatic effect.
How would you define your style? We fuse interior architecture and decoration. We add a layer of opulence, colour and patten over minimalism, its similar to the Hollywood regency style with a cleaner harder Sydney edge. I call our work modernist at the end of the day.
What is your Inspiration for your home? My Italian background. My parents are immigrants and furnished the family home in the early eighties with kitsch baroque furniture and I hated it at the time! I was born in 1970, I have 4 older sisters and the 2 older ones were in their prime in the disco era so I am obsessed with studio 54, 70’s shine and glam. Lastly contemporary design, like the work by Rodolfo Didini for Minotti.
What is your favorite element of your home? B + B vintage 1970’s black mirrored coffee tables, they where brought at auction from the late first architects I did work experience for in grade 10.
What is the biggest challenge of your home? The fact is that I am my own hardest critic, so things where done 2 or 3 times until they were right and perfect. I also struggled as usually I have a client, so that makes it easier to design, so I used Tom Ford as my imaginary client and muse.
What do friends say about your home? They love it, they all thought it would be colourful and with a lot of pattern. I like to get unexpected responses about my work and it shows another side to our design style.
What was is your proudest DIY? I sealed the Basalt flooring my self!
What was the biggest indulgence with respect to your home? My $2000 fuax chinchilla bed spread
What is the best advice you've given or received? Don’t paint the ceiling dark, I did and I had to repaint it white!
Resources:
- Appliances: Smeg oven, gas range hood, dishwasher and range hood
- Hardware: Madinoz joinery d pulls and D Line door handles
- Furniture: Sofa- Moore by Rodolfo Dordini for Minotti, Baroque lounge chair- Italian vintage early eighties from the family home, Coffee tables- 1970’s B+B vintage nest tables from the Auction of the late Dino Burratini, Side table- Still gold Rodolfo Dordini by Minotti, Credenza- Makassar Ebony high gloss custom made and White Knoll Sarrinan marble side tables from Dedece on Terrace
- Accessories: Timber bowl on dining table, Vintage Thai brought form a store on Robertson. L.A., Stelton trey on credenza, Blue Chinese porcelain drum for Mao and More, Eams solid wall nut stool and Bedside table lamps form Bloomingdales.
- Lighting: Architectural lighting by Kreon from Dedece and Murano chandelier from Precious lighting
- Paint: Dulux Grey Hearth, low sheen and flat white cielings
- Flooring: Tiles and Stone Italain Basalt honed on site 400x800 from RMS Marble
- Rugs and Carpets: Rug, mink look goat rug, Kadissia Rodolfo Dordini by Minotti and Grey carpet- Supertuft Wizard twist col Toto
- Window Treatments: Charcol fabric from Brunswig and fils
- Beds: Silver leaf with oaker high lights from Laura Kinkade made in Bressia Italy
- Artwork: Unsigned Marilyn by Andy Warhol and Scott Pietre abstract acrylic painting
To find out more about Greg Natale's work visit his website here.
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i do love it, but i wouldn't want it. numero uno: are those mirrored cabinets in the kitchen? sure, easy to clean, but damn they must get filthy fast! one evening of chicken cutlets fryin' in a pan and poof, there goes the clean cabinets.
Claustrophobic! Every room a monochromatic dark grey?? Windows shrouded in grey? This might at a stretch work for a hotel room. Sorry it wouldn't work for me in a home.
I think it's beautiful! (Although I wouldn't want to live there either.) I love the pops of hot pink from Marilyn on the wall and the flowers in the vase.
I really like the loggia! That wall would be great for a nice fresco in the early Italian style like Giotto (check out the architecture: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/giotto/giotto_pentecost.jpg).
There's a typo in the text: Minottis head designer is called Dordoni - not Didini or Dordini.
At first I loved it, and then I wanted him to turn the lights on? And/or have windows?
$2000 faux chinchilla bedspread? Really?
"$2000 faux chinchilla bedspread? Really?"
Here's the look for less:
http://fabulousfurs.com/ruched-chinchilla-throw/p/11012/
Those mirrored upper cabinet doors look great - I'd love to have them in my place...
...and I don't care of they'd get dirty quickly - glass is easy to clean and I'd be more inclined to stay on top of their maintenance than the painted wood doors I have now.
hey, at least it's FAUX chinchilla! i used to have two of those little buggers and every time i see someone wearing them i wanna go apeshit :)
What a sleek, sophisticated, glamerous and soothing apartment. I think the mirrored kitchen cabs are stunning. Such an inspired idea! I also love the brown accents against the greys--so beautiful. And those curtains! They add the perfect touch of understated glamour and sheen.
Also think the bedroom drawers and closets are devine.
Really wonderful space.
A great house....if you're undead. Seriously, it looks so dark and monotonous as to feel like a tomb. But maybe that's just my claustrophobia talking.
It's dramatic and beautiful in a way, but I wouldn't want to live here either. It does look like a hangout for the undead, Annegret.
If he designed this for himself, why did he have to create an imaginary client? Wouldn't he be his own client?
The fantasy he's designing for Tom Ford is rather sweet. Not persuaded that this is true sophistication, however. Natale's work seems provincial and stuck in the 70s, somehow.
So sexy and chic.
I find Natale's work inspired. It is certainly referential and relies heavily on walking the line between glam and sleaze, but for some reason it always makes me smile. Even with an example like this, which is so dark, there always seems to be a sense of playfulness underneath.
Awesome! I love everything about it! I would even throw Disco ball in ... seriously.
The only problem is that it would not work in Chicago. With the winters like the one we just had, I would be suicidal living in there. I need as much light as I can get during the winter.
Ahhhh.. to be rich.
its so sleek and sexy... i own a book with this place featured in it.
That chandelier is lovely, where can *I* get that?
Too dark and gloomy for me. But the loggia is gorgeous. (Add that much light and beautiful views to the rest of the place and I might reconsider.) A place for an urbanite who is home, entertaining, only at night...
Love. I imagine it would look quite nice with the curtains opened.
"What was is your proudest DIY? I sealed the Basalt flooring my self!"
Fabulous.