Front facade of 70 Cobden — luxury residential build, Kew Melbourne by Albert Living

ONGOING PROJECT

70 Cobden — Luxury Custom Home Build, Kew Melbourne

Location

KEW, VICTORIA

Scope

FULL CONSTRUCTION

Non GFA (Lansdscaping)

368 sqm

Total GFA

363 sqm

Country

AUSTRALIA

Status

ONGOING

Year

2026

Construction Value

$3.9M

Project Details

70 Cobden is a full residential construction project in Kew, Victoria — a design-led home built around a warm pastel-earth palette, softened architectural lines, and the belief that luxury should feel lived in, not preserved. Where most high-end new builds in Melbourne pursue cool minimalism, 70 Cobden pursues calm — layering muted pastels, tactile natural materials, and rounded forms to elevate everyday rituals without demanding attention. Albert Living managed the complete build process: from architectural design and council approvals through to construction, custom joinery, stone finishes, and integrated furniture selection.

Client

Custom Residential New Build

Type

Full Construction, Custom Joinery, Stone Finishes, Integrated Furniture

Services

Micca Pimentel Rangasa

Senior Architect

70 Cobden operates as a highly orchestrated linear sequence — a luxury custom home in Kew, Melbourne where a long, narrow footprint is leveraged to construct a deliberate transition from public streetscape to private enclosure, funnelling movement past the central circulation core toward the rear pool and alfresco zone.

The aggressive tension between the fluid concrete ribbon at the front facade and the colossal double-height glass grid at the rear creates a dynamic architectural volume that dismantles the traditional boundary between interior and exterior — where cascading vines crash against the built form and outdoor crazy paving bleeds directly into the refined internal finishes.

INTERIOR SPACES

Living & Dining

The living and dining domain at 70 Cobden — a design-led luxury home construction in Kew, Melbourne — thrives on deliberate physical tension between natural stone and custom joinery, monolithic slabs of heavily veined Arabescato Cielo marble commanding attention against the absorbent textured grain of custom oak joinery while hand-troweled Marmorino plaster walls catch the shifting afternoon light. A sculptural ten-seater dining table anchors the room's circulation, forcing a curving path of movement around its mass, and the seating wraps the body in heavy boucle and rigid leather — demanding tactile engagement at every turn. Every piece of furniture in this integrated luxury residential build was selected and supplied by Albert Living at the design stage, not after handover.

Kitchen

The In this bespoke kitchen design in Melbourne, Moss Green cabinetry establishes a bold datum line that swallows high-performance Fisher & Paykel and Bosch appliances completely — Arabescato Cielo marble benchtops introducing chaotic kinetic veining against the disciplined custom timber joinery. Metallic glints from an embossed brass double-bowl sink punctuate the muted oak with sharp precision, demanding touch. This is custom kitchen joinery in a high-end new build in Kew where every dense surface — stone, timber, brass — resists and responds to the friction of daily use, and every finish is available through Albert Living's stone and joinery collections.

Master Bedroom

The master suite at this luxury residential construction in Kew, Melbourne was conceived to actively enclose the occupant — cream fabric wall panels and textured Marmorino KS Blanco absorbing echo and forcing an intensely intimate scale that shuts the exterior world out completely. Moving into the adjoining ensuite, the rhythmic geometry of limestone herringbone tiles confronts the sprawling veins of Rosato and Arabescato Cielo marble directly — deep material friction compressing awareness in a way that no standard luxury bedroom renovation in Melbourne attempts. The custom built-in wardrobe, stone surfaces, and bedroom furniture are all available through Albert Living's store, specified here as part of a fully integrated build and furniture package.

DETAILS

Color Palette

The chromatic map of 70 Cobden relies on a restrained luxury interior colour palette of clay, muted greens, and dusty peach — saturation deliberately lowered so walls absorb ambient light rather than reflect it, giving every space an undeniable visual weight that flatters the raw grain of timber and the complex mineral deposits of the stone. This specific pigment strategy prevents visual fatigue, allowing the natural materials of this design-led home in Kew, Melbourne to thoroughly dominate — colours bleeding into one another across the floor plan, knitting the disparate zones into a cohesive, earthy narrative.

Materials and Textures

An uncompromising assembly of raw concrete, honed stone, and ribbed timber — every material in this luxury custom home in Melbourne specified to patina and age with dignity rather than remain pristine. Matte finishes purposely flatten the light, emphasising the porous friction of Traverse Travertine-look tiles and the cool dense temperature of the marble slabs, while every material intersection exposes a precise tactile threshold — transitioning from abrasive outdoor crazy paving to the yielding weave of interior boucle upholstery. These natural stone finishes and bespoke joinery surfaces will record the literal footprint of the inhabitants over time, asserting their formidable mass as they do.

Furniture

The furniture at 70 Cobden was treated as functional sculpture — voluminous curving profiles wrapped in highly textured fabrics physically interrupting the rigid linear datum lines of the surrounding custom joinery in this integrated furniture new build in Kew, Melbourne. A hulking dining table commands the floor as an imposing gravitational obstacle, casting deep shifting shadows as organic shapes and matte surfaces provoke constant visceral engagement. As a Melbourne design-and-build company with over 500 furniture pieces, Albert Living specified and supplied every piece at the design stage — each one chosen as architecture, not decoration.

Lighting

The illumination strategy at 70 Cobden actively carves the interior volumes — directional dimmable spotlights exploiting the uneven topography of hand-troweled walls, intentionally plunging corners into obscurity to prove that shadow matters as much as light in this architecturally designed home in Kew, Melbourne. Sculptural pendant lights drop heavy geometric forms directly into the sightline, manipulating the perceived vertical scale of each room, while warm diffused lumens fundamentally alter the visual density of marble and timber as the afternoon fades into dusk. Every fixture was specified by Albert Living at the design stage and is available through our lighting collection.

Materials and Textures

Every material in 70 Cobden was chosen for how it feels to live with — selected at the design stage so the home reads as a single, cohesive piece of work from the street to the back garden.

Shop This Project

The furniture, lighting, and finishes in 70 Cobden are available in our store. Every piece was selected during the design process — not after — so the home and its contents feel like one complete object.

Project Gallery

A full residential construction in Kew, Melbourne — visualised across every space. Facade, pool courtyard, open-plan living, custom kitchen joinery, stone finishes, and master suite. Designed, built, and furnished by Albert Living.

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