Throwback to WOW!house 2024.
We collaborated with Guy Goodfellow and Tissus d’Hélène to realise a richly layered drawing room shaped by pattern, material and atmosphere. Columns and pilasters were finished in faux porphyry with inlaid ivory detailing, while walls and ceilings were wrapped in custom wallcoverings and the woodwork specialist painted throughout in bespoke finishes.
A scheme that celebrated decoration in its fullest sense.
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Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay WOW!house.
MBMC Studios is delighted to be part of this year’s WOW!house.
Working alongside Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay, in collaboration with Misia for the Casamance Group, the bedroom suite draws on the language of Art Deco, not as reference alone, but as a framework for proportion, line and surface. Nostalgic in spirit yet resolved with a more contemporary hand.
Our contribution centres on making. A tiled relief frieze is produced by decorative artists in our London atelier and installed at high level, running the perimeter of the room and bringing a measured rhythm to the architecture. Door architraves are finished in verdigris, built up through layered patination to achieve depth, variation and a sense of age. This approach is extended across the double doors, ensuring continuity of tone and surface.
This forms part of a broader contribution across the house this year, supporting three distinct rooms in collaboration with exceptional designers.
More to follow as the rooms take shape.
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Meet the Founder.
Matthew Collins photographed at Holbrook Farm, the Somerset base of MBMC Studios.
“Our clients come to us because they trust our capacity to bring refinement to projects through a deep understanding of decorative arts, materiality and craftsmanship,” says Collins. “We have the ability to blend architectural crafts, decorative arts and furniture making in a way that feels both creative and resolved.”
That balance between artistry and precision defines the studio’s work. Interiors layered through plaster, timber, lacquer and painted finishes; spaces shaped as much by atmosphere and touch as by architecture itself.
Inspiration comes through continual observation. Historic houses, design museums and international cities remain part of the studio’s visual language, alongside ongoing collaborations with designers across the world. “You are constantly reacting, questioning and evolving,” Collins reflects. “That process keeps the work alive.”
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Green with envy.
A fully immersive faux malachite room created by MBMC Studios for the apartment of Elizabeth Krohn, designed by Ben Pentreath. One of those spaces where colour, texture and light completely change the mood of a room.
All executed by hand by our decorative arts team.
Photography by Ben Pentreath.
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Salvesen Graham
WOW!house.
MBMC Studios is delighted to be part of this year’s WOW!house.
Working alongside Salvesen Graham, the Primary Bedroom explores a considered dialogue between architecture and decoration, drawing on the spirit of a historic American interior while remaining entirely at ease in a contemporary setting. A space shaped by proportion, pattern and layered detail.
Our role focuses on the refinement of surface. Panelling will be enhamced through a hand-applied strie’ finish, introducing depth and softness across the joinery. The coffered ceiling is articulated with stencilled corner motifs, a ceiling rose and fine pinstriping, bringing quiet rhythm to the architecture.
This forms part of a broader contribution across the house this year, supporting three distinct rooms in collaboration with exceptional designers.
More to follow as the rooms take shape.
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In the library at Holbrook.
A room for references, prototypes and exploration. A space where one object can inform a set of conversations, both between our founders and the clients we entertain here.
The table changes constantly. Pieces arrive, move and evolve. Ideas do much the same.
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Max Rollitt
WOW!house.
MBMC Studios is delighted to be part of this year’s WOW!house.
Working alongside interior designer Max Rollitt, and in collaboration with Schumacher, the project centres on a dining room that draws from 18th century architecture, reimagined with a more contemporary sensibility. A space shaped by proportion and detail, where historical reference is held with a lighter, more responsive touch.
Our role focuses on the finishing of the joinery, approached with the restraint and material understanding that sits at the core of the studio’s work. Surfaces are gently colour washed rather than being painted to bring depth, variation and softness to the timber, allowing the architecture of the room to come forward.
This forms part of a broader contribution across the house this year, supporting three distinct rooms in collaboration with exceptional designers.
More to follow as the rooms take shape.
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Points of Reference.
Sir John Vanbrugh’s Blenheim Palace.
At the North Portico, six unblinking eyes meet you before you enter. Disembodied, set within starbursts, they sit above the threshold. Three brown, three cerulean. Watching.
Ceilings have long carried the language of authority, a surface from which power is projected and control quietly asserted. Here, that idea is distilled into a single gesture. The gaze.
You are seen before you see.
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For MBMC, it is a reminder that an entrance is not simply a point of access, but a moment of intent. A shift in atmosphere, proportion and perception, set from above and felt immediately.
Spring light at Holbrook.
Sun pouring through the windows this afternoon, catching the movement in the plaster, the veining of the stone, the warmth of the timber. Every surface considered, made by hand, and quietly refined over time.
Visit our Somerset studio to experience it in person. By appointment.
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Matthew Collins and Mathew Bray in the workshop at Holbrook.
An ongoing conversation between material and method: testing, adjusting, refining.
Process held at the bench, where decisions are made in real time and craft advances through iteration.
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Properly seen.
With thanks to Lucy Mayers.
Despite working with MBMC for over a decade, her recent visit to the Somerset workshops captures something essential. A studio understood most clearly not through images, but on site, where material, process and judgement sit alongside one another.
Visits welcome.
The work is best understood on site, in material, in process, and in scale.
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In the mix.
Polished plaster at its most elemental, lime, pigment, water, brought into balance by hand and eye. Decisions made in motion, not on paper.
Mathew Bray, Holbrook Farm.
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