Palm Heights Villa
Private Residential Villa · Egypt, Palm Heights Compound · 300 m²
Palm Heights Villa is a 500 m² private residence in Palm Heights Compound, Egypt, where MORRA designed the interiors around warm timber, dark stone and a few strong, sculptural gestures. The result is a house that is calm in daily use and generous when it hosts.
A Room Around a Relief
The living room is organised around a single image: a large classical relief of four figures, set into a timber-lined wall and washed from behind by a soft glow. Everything else is kept quiet so that the relief can lead. Low, pale sofas face each other across wooden tables, and a tall bookcase on one side adds a more personal, lived-in layer. Slim linear fixtures and floor lamps give the room an evening mood without breaking its restraint. It is a space that suits both an unhurried family evening and a larger gathering.
Facing the Pool
A rounded seating area sits within a bay of tall windows, so the pool and the garden become the backdrop to every conversation. The curved sofa, the two patterned armchairs and the brass-toned coffee table gather around a woven rug, giving the corner a more intimate scale than the main living room. Overhead, a wide sculptural pendant hangs against a ceiling of fine timber slats, and the light stays warm and low. Seen from the dining side, the same view reappears through slatted blinds, a reminder that the garden is never far from any room.
A Long, Soft Lounge
In the main lounge the sofas stretch along the window wall in low, generous modules. Adjustable blinds filter the green of the garden, while heavy curtains can soften the room when privacy or shade is wanted. The relief continues along the side wall, lit from its edges so it reads as part of the architecture rather than as a picture hung on it. A dark stone floor and a large rug ground the pale furniture, and the contrast gives the room its quiet confidence.
Centrepiece and Table
A sculptural mass of deep red blooms rises from a planted bed set into the floor, marking the point where the living area opens toward the kitchen and dining room. A visitor passes it on the way in and keeps it in view throughout, and it brings the only strong colour into an otherwise neutral palette. Beyond it, the kitchen is a composed wall of timber joinery and dark stone, lit softly from above. The long dining table sits beneath a pendant of pale globes, with upholstered chairs and a woven rug below. At the other end, a wall of glass opens onto the pool, so that meals can be taken with the garden in sight.
The Bedroom in Bronze
This bedroom turns warm and tactile. A wall of sculpted, rounded relief rises behind a low, wide bed, and a draped white pendant hangs above it like a soft lantern. Brass-toned lamps with stone bases, rust-coloured cushions and a swirling black-and-white carpet add rhythm without crowding the calm of the room. A glazed wardrobe along one side keeps everyday things close yet orderly. Small details, such as the figurine with its balloon on the bedside table, add a note of play to the refinement.
A Darker Retreat
In the second bedroom the mood shifts toward the moody and the private. Raw concrete, charcoal walls and pale timber flooring frame a deep, tufted bed, and a classical portrait on the concrete wall provides a quiet focal point. A red rug adds a single patch of warmth. Vertical timber fins divide the sleeping area from a small reading corner, where a low armchair, a mushroom-shaped lamp and a magazine left on the floor suggest unhurried routine. Floor lamps and recessed light keep the room dim and enveloping.
Fire and Reflection
At the foot of the bed, a long, low fireplace sits beneath a suspended mirrored panel. Its linear flame is the warmest point in the room, and the mirror carries the light, the portrait and the windows deeper into the space. Blinds soften the daylight on the other side, so the room can move from bright morning to a lit, private evening. The detailing is exact: clean edges, dark surfaces and a single glow, and it completes the villa's contrast between open, sunlit entertaining and personal retreat.
