22/06/2026
A basement asked to do several things at once - watch films, pour drinks, sit quietly, gather people.
The answer wasn’t more rooms, it was one sofa placed back-to-back: one side drawing you toward the screen, the other anchoring a bar built to earn its corner.
Opposite, a low seating nook pulls the room into balance - somewhere to settle without occasion, stripped of distraction, with just enough enclosure to feel deliberate. The contrast between the two sides is the whole point.
Furniture as architecture. Porro doing what it does best.
Architecture: 23 Architecture
Photography: Simon Kennedy