— what a Flamingo brief looks like
Selected, not everything.
The studio has finished more than 150 projects. The sample below is small on purpose. Every one on the wall satisfied three quiet standards, and every one that isn’t on the wall failed one of them.
The first is a brief that respects the material. A room designed around Italian marble, French beech or hand-cast brass must earn those materials at the level of detail — the way a joint lands, the way a hinge sits, the way a light falls on grain. We turn down briefs where the material is decoration rather than structure.
The second is a client who wants the same room in year ten as in year one. We are not a photograph studio. If the brief asks for a look that will read stale in eighteen months, we ask the harder question first — and often walk the client back into a longer-lasting version of the same instinct.
The third is a project the workshop can hold end to end. Some work belongs to other studios, and we say so plainly. What we take, we take responsibility for — from the first sketch through the last coat of polish.