VILLA NOIR BALI  2021

An uncompromising black-on-black statement villa in Bali. This design captured minimalism at its most defiant, serene but never soft. A space that didn’t whisper, it held its ground.

This was the beginning of building light into space, not just into objects.

Villa Noir introduced a radical shift away from the island’s design language, a monochrome palette executed with precision across stone, wood, concrete, and custom furnishings. Local builders were sceptical, “Black,” they said, “was too extreme for Bali.” That only confirmed the vision was right.

The brief was singular, one colour, infinite contrasts. Texture became the medium, rough against smooth, matte against sheen, all bound by one defining hue.

Rooted in the Balinese philosophy of poleng, the black and white check symbolising duality and balance, the villa channels this tension, chaos and calm, heat and shadow, boldness and stillness.

Having travelled to Bali since the late ’70s, and living there from 2019–2023, Kristina embedded this concept not as decoration, but as DNA.

Villa Noir was more than a home, it was a living sculpture. A brutalist shadow in a sea of white. Every surface in black, every light intentional, every contrast deliberate.

Texture replaced colour. Silence replaced excess.