Luz House
A Room Built in
Wood
The brief was total: floor to ceiling, wall to wall, no surface untreated. Heritage Art & Architecture designed and executed a complete teak interior across a long, narrow double-height room in a private residence in Chennai — panelled walls rising across two storeys, a tiered central wall composition, turned columns, arched niches, perimeter moulding runs, and a carved dentil frieze at the upper register.
The Spatial
Problem
Working with a Narrow, Tall Footprint
A long room with significant ceiling height has a tendency to read as a corridor. The panelling was designed to counter this. Horizontal moulding bands at dado, mid-wall, and cornice level pull the eye across the width of the room rather than down its length. The central architectural wall composition draws focus inward and upward, giving the room a clear visual terminus. Twin skylights cut into the plastered ceiling bring natural light directly onto the teak face, shifting the wood tone across the day.
The Central
Wall
Tiered Composition in the Joinery Tradition
The focal wall follows a three-tiered arrangement. A cabinet base anchors the lower section. Above it, three arched openings framed by paired turned columns form the mid-register. The upper section closes with an enclosed panel and carved pediment. The arch profiles and column detailing draw from late colonial woodwork traditions with roots in both Marathi and South Indian joinery — a lineage that sits naturally in a Chennai residence with a clear connection to that inheritance.
Wood and
Light
Teak Tone, Skylight, Chandelier
The room is lit by two large branched chandeliers set into a plastered ceiling panel that sits above the wood line. The white ceiling and chandelier mass are the only surfaces not in teak — and that contrast is load-bearing. Without it, the depth of the wood tone across a double-height room risks becoming oppressive. The skylights compound this, throwing direct daylight onto the upper panels and warming the teak through the afternoon hours.
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