Encore Stone Studio
Calacatta Viola vanity and arched mirrors in an oxblood powder room

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Richmond Project

The clients flew from Canada to Austin. It was worth the trip.

Toronto, Canada

  • Interior design byPhoenix Grey
  • Photography byDeluca Media Group
Brass box and stacked art books on a dark marble surface
Phoenix Grey of Orion Studio holding dried hydrangeas

About the Project

[Phoenix] Rooted in organic modernism but uninterested in restraint, the design operates in the register of feeling first.

Book-matched stone unfolds across surfaces like a painting that was always there, its veining too deliberate to be anything but intentional.

Oxblood marble grounds the palette in something ancient and bodily, warm where you expect cold, rich where you expect raw. Against it, aged brass doesn't shine so much as glow, the way candlelight does, slowly and without effort.

Calacatta Viola Marble

Project Details

Stone:
Calacatta Fabricotti
Finish:
Polished
Profile:
Straight Edge
Origin:
Italian Marble

[Phoenix] “Velvet absorbs the light that brass gives back. Oak adds grain and memory. Every material is chosen not just for how it looks but for how it reads under your hand.

This is interiors as a sensory experience, where atmosphere is the architecture and every finish is a decision about how a room should feel at 10 pm, not just noon.”

Books and a lamp on the oak credenza

Project Details

Stone:
Avocatus
Finish:
Leathered
Profile:
Straight Edge
Origin:
Brazilian Quartzite
Art books and an amber vessel on a marble table

[Phoenix] “The maximalism here isn't about accumulation. It's about commitment. No surface is neutral, no choice is passive, and yet nothing competes, because the organizing principle isn't drama for its own sake. It's envelopment.

The goal was always a space that holds you, jewel-toned and unapologetic, like a room that already knows exactly what it is.”