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March, 2024
In the lively 25-seater enclave, the devil’s in the details and it boils down to every nook and cranny where design-led easter eggs await the discerning eye. At the forefront of design is international designer Virginia Pérez-Orive who spent two years researching and curating to reflect the essence of the Tamba story accurately. “The process of designing Tamba was a fascinating exploration into the richness of West African culture, home to hundreds of different ethnic groups, languages, and traditions,” said Pérez-Orive.
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March, 2024
To bring this concept to life, international designer Virginia Pérez-Orive has curated the space to illustrate the love and care for the essence of Tamba’s story through a two year journey of meticulous research and designing. From the walls with intricate and rustic textures, they mimic the effect of wind on sand. Guests are transported into a hidden enclave in a two-storey conserved shophouse where the thatched roof offers cool shade.
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April, 2024
Stepping into Tamba will have you transported into a whole new world. Conceptualised by international designer Virginia Pérez-Orive, the walls have a rustic texture and are redolent of the effect of wind on sand. Every little detail is carefully thought through, from the clay vessels to the carved Tuareg-staff door handles, which makes Tamba a truly special enclave that embodies a West African warmth difficult to replicate anywhere else.
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March, 2024
Tamba, an intimate 25-seater created by international designer Virginia Perez-Orive, is the product of two years of intensive research and curation.
Ms Perez-Orive’s design team handpicked every detail, from the clay vessels and artefacts to the carved Tuareg-staff door handles, as an expression of Tamba’s spirit and flair.
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February, 2024
A twenty-seater space made supremely hospitable with plush sofas and homey accoutrements, almost like being hosted in a close friend’s sleekly furnished living room.
Guests are snuggly nestled into low tables, which give plenty of headroom and vantage to take in the grandeur of the environment, set to a capacious backdrop that handsomely blends wooden accents, leather fixtures, and pops of straw into the mud-toned colour-washed walls.
On top of that, the mise-en-scene is tied together by an august bar counter that oversees the space, bodaciously wrought out of leather and studded with rivets redolent of scarification.
From start to end, Tamba stays consistently well-choreographed. Above all, the decor is masterfully planned throughout every inch.
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May, 2020
To help get the mix right, Karen brought In Madrid-based interior designer Virginia Pérez-Orive.
Virginiás design credo aligned tidily with Karen’s. “I do livable houses, not homes without toys and dogs“.
Rejecting the typical order of things Virginia takes art into consideration from the start, instead of leaving it until the end. “Once the art is on the wall, it's so much easier to make the space work.. it should be the furniture subordinating to the art, not the other way around”.
Four water-colors by American artist Christopher Stern were chosen for the Living room. “They set the tone“ says Virginia. Their vibrant shades took Karen away from her neutral-colored comfort zone.
The villa also plays with thoughtful contrasts. Cool washed-concrete walls in the kitchen, for example, are offset by tactile Balinese baskets turned into light fixtures, each as big as a church bell. Light stone floors on the ground level are balanced by black wood flooring in the bedrooms. “I think of black as the “eyeliner”. With spring-like colours you need that tougher touch”.
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2015
The house is touchingly unprepossessing, one of a handful of look alikes constructed in Singapore in the 1970s on the slope of a residential neighborhood on the western part of Singapore. But inside is where Perez-Orive truly works her magic and makes a comfortable yet chic environment with elements that she has brought back from her travels.
If Perez-Orive is as dept at creating vignettes whose elements are strung by colour or texture or pattern, her high-low pairing skills are equally commendable.
“Having kids in the house does not mean that style goes out the window.”
“ I wanted it to be filled with art and humour, awash with a soft palette, with terraces and small corners to chill out..“Friends have taken to their new home in Singapore. I love how people come to the house and are reminded of something: I feel like I’m on holiday. This is is a bit of Bali. I feel like I’m in a terrace in Ibiza or Marbella”.
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2024
Tamba, a new intimate yet lively enclave in Singapore’s Duxton neighbourhood, brings the vibrant flavours of West Africa to life. Interiors, designed by Virginia Pérez-Orive, reflect two years of meticulous research into West African culture, adding to the authenticity.
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