The atelier
REFABS was born inside a production atelier: a place of drawings, samples and finished surfaces.
I The drawing and the hand
In most houses, the people who draw and the people who build rarely meet. In the atelier they share a table. The house you compose and the house that is made remain one and the same idea.
We bring the patience of fine interiors and furniture to the scale of a home.
II Finish
Each element is made and finished in the atelier, inside and out, with the attention usually kept for the rooms people see. What arrives on your land is already complete.
Warm underfoot and honest in the hand, chosen for how it ages.
For thresholds and the places a house meets the ground.
A surface that settles into its landscape over the years.
Set deep, so light arrives softened and views are framed.
Quiet interiors, finished to be lived in, not only looked at.
Made slowly, so it can be lived in for a long time.
The atelier
Time is spent where it shows, and where it does not.
Fewer materials, used well. Nothing added for effect.
A house is followed from the first sketch to long after the keys.
— Begin
Start a private brief. Nothing is fixed until you say so.