VILLA BIANCO BALI

A bold expression of restraint, all light, no noise. This design captured minimalism at its most luminous, soft but never passive. This space didn’t shout, it exhaled.

This was the beginning of stripping light back to its essence, not just illumination, but atmosphere.

Villa Bianco introduced a quiet shift away from the density of tropical design, a pale palette of white, matte concrete, sharpened by black accents and softened by natural texture.

Everything was intentional,  the thatched alang-alang roof, the bamboo matting, the low-slung furniture, the breeze.

Local builders asked where the colour was. It was in the light. That was the point.

The brief was singular: minimal, but meaningful.

White became the medium, void against volume, reflection against texture, all bound by one defining rhythm.

Rooted in the Balinese philosophy of poleng, the black and white check symbolising duality and balance, the villa channels that same tension: light and shadow, stillness and energy,
raw and refined.

Having travelled to Bali since the late 70s and living there from 2019–2024, Kristina wove these symbolic references into the space, not as styling, but as structure.

Villa Bianco was more than a retreat, it was a reframing of light. A palette cleanser. A calm refusal. Every surface deliberate, every breath designed.