Ashkan
Hassanpoor

Designed for a private client in the United States, this contemporary villa achieves grandeur through material contrast and architectural tension. Floating black-steel staircases with LED-lit treads ascend through double-height voids; a grand piano occupies the foyer as both furniture and sculpture. The open-plan kitchen and dining zone features a dramatically veined dark marble island, matte black cabinetry, and a sculptural reflective ceiling. The formal dining room has a bespoke branching chandelier over a twelve-seat stone table, backed by a full-height Nero marble wall. Master bathrooms feature freestanding tubs on back-lit marble plinths, dual arched vanity mirrors framed in dark marble, and panoramic city views.

This luxury residential interior in Muscat, Oman became one of the most viral interior design projects in the Middle East — reaching over 14 million views and 1.3 million likes across a single social media post alone, with significantly higher reach across multiple platforms including Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest.

The design language is defined by an intense commitment to dark glamour: high-gloss black lacquer cabinetry, Nero marble surfaces that run seamlessly from floor to feature wall, and a kitchen island faced in hand-laid bronze reeded panels with a dramatically backlit marble top. The dining room features forest-green sculptural velvet chairs around a Nero marble table beneath a spectacular branching chrome chandelier. The living room introduces a bio-ethanol fireplace set within a dark marble surround and fluted black panel wall, creating a cinematic focal point anchored by a hand-knotted Persian rug. Throughout the home, classical sculpture and curated art objects provide human scale and cultural depth.

This project represents one of the most comprehensive commissions in the studio's portfolio: a full two-storey private villa in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, taken from bare wood-frame construction through to a fully resolved, photorealistic interior design across every principal space.

The ground floor is anchored by a dramatic double-height entrance with a sweeping illuminated marble staircase — veined Emperador stone steps lit from beneath create a weightless, almost theatrical arrival sequence. The main living area features a bold compositional contrast: a curved Calacatta marble TV feature wall flanked by dark fluted oak panels and a linear bio-ethanol fireplace, framed by a coffered ceiling with recessed LED geometry. The open-plan kitchen is a study in precision — matte ivory cabinetry with an integrated dark graphite island topped in book-matched white marble, a Nero-panel splashback, and a smoked mirror ceiling panel overhead. The formal dining room commands its own drama, with a sculptural abstract-metal chandelier suspended beneath a lacquered black mirror ceiling panel, and a bespoke illuminated bar cabinet serving as the centrepiece wall.

The upper floor is home to a master suite of genuine scale and restraint: a micro-cement textured feature wall behind the bed, a private dressing room with floor-to-ceiling glass-fronted wardrobes and integrated island unit, and a master bathroom finished entirely in book-matched dark Emperador marble — twin vessel sinks on a fluted vanity, a freestanding sculptural bathtub, and a walk-in rain shower enclosed in frameless glass. A dedicated lower-ground entertainment level houses a private home bar and lounge with a custom stepped coffered ceiling, full-height wine display, and a separate whisky-tasting room with chevron-inlay oak wall panels and a round Nero marble table. A bespoke residential elevator connects all three floors, finished in warm panel-textured lacquer.

This commission came directly from a construction company developing a dual-unit residential project at 12 Eildon Street, Doncaster, Melbourne — and represents one of the studio's most comprehensive multi-residential interior design engagements to date. Both dwellings were designed in full from the ground up as a single cohesive commission, sharing an open-plan living, dining, and kitchen layout, a bio-ethanol fireplace, and a signature dining centrepiece: a long dark-base table topped in a dramatic book-matched Patagonia stone slab, its swirling copper, graphite and ivory veining anchoring both interiors beneath sculptural overhead lighting — a chain-link chandelier and coffered LED ceiling in one dwelling, a neon-loop pendant and smoked mirror panel in the other.

Across both homes the kitchens carry full-height matte-black cabinetry and marble-topped islands on fluted dark bases, while the master suites push the material language further with illuminated headwalls — full-height textured plaster framed by a backlit slot in one, a luminous fluted panel beneath a near-black lacquer ceiling and hexagonal walnut flooring in the other. Bedrooms throughout feature dramatic back-lit raw stone slab headwalls flanked by dark fluted panels, lending a geological drama rarely seen in residential interiors, while bathrooms are finished in full-slab grey-green marble with frameless glass enclosures. What distinguishes the two dwellings is tone rather than concept: one leans into a deeply cinematic dark palette, the other reinterprets the same materials and details in warmer timber and lighter upholstery for a more airy atmosphere — together forming two completely resolved interior worlds that share an address and a material vocabulary, yet speak in distinct emotional registers.

Stash House Nashville is a full commercial interior design commission for a specialty smoke and lifestyle retail store — delivered entirely remotely from concept through photorealistic visualisation. The brief called for a bold, immersive brand environment: edgy, memorable, and unmistakably unlike any conventional retail space. The starting point was a bare structural shell — exposed corrugated steel roof deck, raw concrete slab, unfinished stud walls — a blank canvas with significant volume but zero identity.

The design response is uncompromising. The entire ceiling plane is colonised by a bespoke hexagonal LED grid — hundreds of illuminated honeycomb modules spanning the full floor area, creating a continuous architectural canopy of white light that fills the space with an almost cinematic luminosity. Suspended within this grid, overscaled dark-green 3D hexagonal acoustic panels punctuate the field with depth and colour, reinforcing the brand's geometric language while breaking the flatness of the light field.

Walls are lined floor-to-ceiling with matte-black steel shelving systems, each shelf edge back-lit in cool white to create infinite-depth product displays across product categories: Delta/THCA, Nicotine Disposables, Salt Nic Juice, Mushrooms and Stash House own-brand lines. The centrepiece checkout counter is clad in a sculptural live-edge moss-green textured stone panel, back-lit with neon green LED strips and branded with the Stash House logo — a glowing focal element visible from the entry. A large-format U-shaped glass display counter in matte black steel runs through the centre of the floor, housing premium product lines beneath glass.

The floor is a bespoke high-gloss black epoxy pour with a deep swirling smoke-and-ink graphic underlay — creating a liquid, reflective surface that mirrors the ceiling light grid and dissolves the boundary between floor and air. Geometric neon-green line detailing is inlaid directly into the epoxy, tracing a cube motif at entry and navigation lines through the space. Bespoke artworks — including a graffiti-masked Marilyn Monroe print and a large surrealist portrait — are integrated into the Delta/THCA zone, adding cultural texture to the retail experience. Before-and-after documentation captures the full transformation from raw shell to completed environment.