Limewash walls, low afternoon sun
An interior studio that works material first
Harlowe & Voss is the interior studio of principal designer Marta Voss. Every house begins as a scheme: materials pinned to the board, light measured, colour earned.
limewash, bouclé, fumed oak, travertine, oxblood leather
The material library
Before a room is anything else, it is a handful of materials on the bench. We choose these first, then the colour is whatever the materials give back in the light. Nothing is painted on afterward.
Four houses
Not decorated to a look, but built to a feeling. Each house is held to the materials and the light the rooms already had.
A room that warms as the sun drops
Full house · 2024
A full house held to oxblood leather and fumed oak, warmed with limewash and a boucle the colour of raw wool. The garnet reads only where the afternoon sun lands on it.
limewash, bouclé, fumed oak, travertine, oxblood leather
A room the morning does the work in
Apartment · 2025
A small apartment kept pale: flax linen, bone plaster, and unlacquered brass left to darken at the edges. The morning light does most of the decorating.
flax linen, bone plaster, travertine, unlacquered brass, morning grey
A room kept quiet for the art
Gallery wing · 2023
A long room floored in fumed oak, walls in chalk white, one wool runner dyed madder red. The art hangs on iron black; the scheme stays quiet so the room can be loud.
chalk white, fumed oak, iron black, madder red, paper
A barn that stayed a barn
The barn stayed a barn: honed limestone underfoot, oak beams overhead, moss wool for warmth. Read it in full alongside the others.
See all four houses
On the board
One house, four stages. Nothing is ordered until the whole scheme is agreed on the board.
The walkthrough
We spend a morning in the rooms, measuring the light and the way you already live. Nothing is drawn yet.
The board
Materials come back to the studio and onto the board: limewash, oak, a bolt of linen, one stone. The scheme is agreed before a single order goes out.
The making
The FF&E schedule goes to the fourteen trades we work with by name. We hold the drawings, the joinery, and every delivery date.
Install week
The house comes together in one concentrated week. We hang, place, and style, then hand the finished rooms back to you.
The hands behind it
A room should feel found, not decorated.
Harlowe & Voss is the practice of principal designer Marta Voss, working with a studio of five. Founded in 2013, it has finished houses one scheme at a time ever since.
Full design from $18,000. The first consultation is $450, credited against your fee.
Demo figures. Set your own.
How your home will feel
Send us the rooms you have and the light they get. We read every enquiry ourselves and reply within two working days.