Aldine Voss

The Feilden

The Feilden is a private family residence in South London commissioned through Kellaway Reid. The interior scope was assigned to Aldine Voss at technical design stage. The brief was specific: create a home that supports work, education, and daily family life without requiring the family to spend significant time maintaining it.

Status

Completed 2024

Status

Completed 2024

Architect

Kellaway Reid

Architect

Kellaway Reid

Developer

Private Client

Developer

Private Client

Builder

Hartwell & Bourne

Builder

Hartwell & Bourne

The Start

Kellaway Reid had established the architectural language before Aldine Voss were appointed — dark exposed timber beam ceiling, black steel framing, white render walls, chevron timber floor carried continuously through every room. The structure was already doing significant work. The interior brief was not to add atmosphere. It was to support a specific and demanding programme: two adults working from home, two children being educated at home, and a shared domestic life that had to function at a high level every day of the week.

The family's requirement was not comfort in the conventional sense. It was performance. Surfaces that could be cleaned quickly. Storage that kept the working and learning spaces clear without demanding constant management. Materials that held up under daily use by four people with four different schedules. Kellaway Reid needed an interior studio who understood that brief as a technical problem, not a decorative one.

The mid point

The living room, kitchen, and bedroom are governed by the same ceiling — dark exposed timber beams, track lighting fixed directly to the structure, running without interruption from the front of the house to the rear. Every upholstery and joinery specification was made in performance-grade materials: sealed surfaces, wipe-clean finishes, nothing that requires a maintenance regime the family would have to think about.

The kitchen places the hob and sink within the island so whoever is cooking faces into the room. The bedroom wardrobe runs wall to wall, with integrated lighting behind the headboard panel — storage here is total, nothing without a place. Both rooms continue the chevron floor from the living areas. The material register does not break between rooms because the brief did not allow for it to.

The office and bathroom are the two rooms with the most specific requirements. The office runs a full-length oak desk along the internal wall, with steel-framed floating shelving above — professional in function, domestic in register. The bathroom introduces travertine in the shower enclosure and timber at the vanity, both sealed for a maintenance cycle measured in years. The chevron floor continues through both, and the beam ceiling does not stop at the wet zone boundary.

Final result

The Feilden was delivered on programme and handed over through Kellaway Reid. The interior scope held to the architectural language without deviation — the beam ceiling, the steel framing, the chevron floor run as a single system from the entrance to the rear of the building. The family moved in with every room resolved. Nothing was left to be addressed after occupation.

Working with Aldine Voss required us to do very little managing. We handed them the drawing set, we agreed the brief, and they disappeared into the work. What came back was interior documentation that sat inside our own set as though it had always been there. That is exactly what we needed.

James Ostler, Ostler & Finn

Kellaway Reid retained full authorship of the project. Aldine Voss brought an interior scope that met the same technical standard as the architectural package — specified to perform under real daily use, documented to the tolerance the builder required, and delivered without the practice having to manage the process.

"The brief was harder than it looked. A family that works and educates at home needs an interior that functions at a professional level without reading like one. Aldine Voss understood that from the first conversation. The result is a house that the family uses hard every day and that still looks exactly as it was intended to."

"Studio Aldine is a specialist interior design partnership working exclusively with architecture practices and design agencies — embedded in your team, carrying your brief, credited to your practice"

Kellaway Reid

Joanne Smith

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