L’atelier

Boutique Residential Architecture ’ London

Crafting spaces, shaping lives.

London  ·  Est. 2020 A home is more than a building. Scroll
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The Practice ’ Positioning

A home is more than a building.
It is a crafted experience.

L’atelier is a boutique residential practice creating refined, contemporary homes that balance precision, elegance, and enduring quality — timeless architecture drawn out through meticulous detail.

Every project begins with the people who will inhabit it. We listen, observe, and distil ideas into designs that feel both timeless and deeply personal — shaping proportion, light, and materiality with the care of a workshop rather than a firm.

  • i.London & beyondResidential practice, working internationally
  • ii.ResidentialNew homes, extensions, and considered interiors
  • iii.Since 2020Simona Kuneva & Ramez Khalil
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Selected Work ’ Residential

A quiet architecture of proportion & light.

Al Khorshed House
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Al Khorshed House

Private Residence

Warm stucco volumes and a pivoting timber threshold, ordered around a stone entrance court with framed views to a desert garden.

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Stockwell House
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Stockwell House

London

A restrained brick house that holds the street line — tall windows, a clean gable, and a quiet civic presence at dusk.

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South Hampstead House
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South Hampstead House

London

A contemporary brick gable set beside a Victorian terrace — a considered infill that belongs to its street yet speaks in a modern voice.

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1426 Eisley Drive
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1426 Eisley Drive

Private Residence

Board-marked concrete and corten within a walled garden — a private world entered through a single, deliberate threshold.

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Villa Al Mazraoui
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Villa Al Mazraoui

United Arab Emirates

Terracotta and lime-washed volumes around a pool, olive tree and cacti — a warm, arid modernism made for the sun.

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Dubai Creek Villas
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Dubai Creek Villas

Dubai

Fluted concrete fins, a timber pergola and a mirror-still pool — sculptural mass softened by golden-hour light.

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The Approach ’ How We Work

Four principles, held throughout.

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Precision

Measured, disciplined, resolved to the last detail.

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Craft

The atelier hand — makers, artisans, materials.

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Elegance

Quiet, unhurried, never decorative for its own sake.

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Endurance

Homes to be lived in and loved for generations.

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The Studio ’ The People

A workshop, not a firm.

L’atelier is led by its two founders — hands on every project, from the first sketch to the last detail on site.

We keep the practice deliberately small, so the people who design your home are the ones you meet, the ones drawing it, and the ones there as it is built. Fewer projects, more care.

Simona Kuneva, Co-founder of L'atelier

Simona Kuneva

Co-founder ’ Design

Leads the design of each home — shaping proportion, light, and the quiet details that make a space feel considered and calm.

Ramez Khalil, Co-founder of L'atelier

Ramez Khalil

Co-founder ’ Delivery

Turns the drawing into the built thing — technical resolution, materials, and the craft of getting a home made well.

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The Mark ’ One Stroke

The apostrophe is the whole identity in one stroke.

The small mark of the workshop — the elision that turns le atelier into l’atelier. One glyph, drawn from the name itself, carried quietly across every surface.

Before You Build ’ Feasibility

Know what your site can become.

Considering a plot, an extension, or a new home in London? Share the address and we’ll come back with an early read on what’s possible — planning context, massing, and potential.

Soon powered by HomeFinder ’ L’atelier’s feasibility engine