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A BRIEF THAT INVOLVED MAD MEN, BAUHAUS AND THE WOLF OF WALL STREET AND A TWO-STOREY LOFT THAT USED TO BE A HOME FOR NURSES, MADE FOR ΑΝ INTERESTING PROJECT-ΟΝΕ ΤΗΑΤ WAS BRILLIANTLY EXECUTED BY ΑΝ INTERIOR DESIGN DUO FROM AMSTERDAM.

- MARC HELDENS

"CREATE A COMFORTABLE FAMILY LOFT” was the brief given to Dax and Joyce Roll of Nicemakers. At least, that was the easy part of it; the rest requested “a home where furniture designer Jean Prouvé meets interior designer Joseph Dirand; where Bauhaus architecture meets the glamour of the Chrysler Building; where interiors specialists Roman and Williams meet the series Mad Men; and where minimal architect Peter Zumthor meets The Wolf of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort”.

It must’ve made for an interesting mood board for the Amsterdam-based interior design studio – but in their favour was a portfolio of successfully completed projects that includes a city-centre canal house, a country farmhouse, a 19th-century mansion, a 1960s bungalow, and the re-styling of De L’Europe hotel in Amsterdam.

The starting point for this latest project was a concrete loft in the south of the Netherlands, with a roof terrace providing great views of Maastricht’s city centre. “Every new project starts with freedom – freedom of thought and inspiration – and a story or an atmosphere,” says Dax. “That is our approach – and luckily in this instance, given their briefing, also that of our clients.”