01Ivory
Ivory · #F8F4EB
Limewash plaster
Lime putty and pigment, brushed over lime render in crossing strokes. It changes with the light through the day, and touch-ups disappear into it.
Hollyburn House · Laurel Residence
Houses · Condos · Kitchens · Offices
A nine-person studio in Vancouver. We measure, draw and specify every room, then see it through on site.
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Alder Street Loft
About Lusenne
Lusenne is nine people on Alexander Street. We design houses, condos, kitchens and a few offices, and we take on eleven projects a year so that Elise or Noah can be on site every week.
- Winters here
- 12
- Designers and makers
- 9
- Projects finished
- 143
- Taken on each year
- 11
Elise started the studio in 2014 at her kitchen table in Mount Pleasant. It has been on Alexander Street since 2020.
Kerrisdale family room
What we do
Five kindsof work
Most clients start with one room.
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Residential interiors
Houses and condos, mostly older ones. We measure, draw, specify, and manage the trades.
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Kitchens & joinery
Kitchens, wardrobes, stairs and bookcases. Drawn here, built by two shops we have used for years.
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Workplace & hospitality
Offices of 20 to 150 people, and the odd café. We start by asking how people actually work.
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Furnishing & styling
Furniture, lamps, rugs and art for rooms that are built but empty. We place everything ourselves.
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Visualisation
Renders and short walkthroughs, so you can see the room before anything is ordered.
Selected projects
Recentprojects
All projectsWe have finished 143 projects. Tell us what you have in mind and we will send the closest ones.
Ask for them
Read a room
The stair hall, piece by piece
Cedar Stair House, Point Grey. Tap a number to see why each thing is there.
The stair is clad in fumed white oak veneer cut from a single log, so the grain carries round the turn.
Honed marble, fluted by hand. In winter the low sun rakes across the ribs.
Sheers by day, drapes at night, on separate tracks. There are no blinds anywhere in the house.
Four chairs in two colours, low enough that a guest can lean back and look up the stairwell.
It stands in a raised stone box under the skylight, the one spot that gets three hours of direct sun in December.
Split slate laid loose under the stair. It needs no water, and it picks up the black of the sculpture.
The material library
Fivematerials
The colours in our identity are named after things we use. These five turn up in nearly every project.
The library
02Taupe
Taupe · #B7A89A
Washed linen
Belgian linen, washed before it is sewn so it hangs straight. Full height, never puddled on the floor.
Wren House · Cedar Stair House
03Olive
Olive · #6B6F56
Aniline leather
Vegetable-tanned and left unfinished, so it marks easily and darkens with use. After twenty years it looks better than it did on day one.
Kerrisdale Family Room · Railtown Studio
04Espresso
Espresso · #3B2E26
Fumed white oak
Darkened with ammonia fumes rather than stain, so the colour goes through the timber. Sand it in ten years and it is the same colour underneath.
Cedar Stair House · Kits Point Kitchen
05Stone
Stone · #C9C4BA
Honed marble
Honed, never polished, and sealed with a matte sealer. Red wine will leave a mark if it sits overnight. Wipe it up and it’s fine.
Cedar Stair House · Hollyburn House
The studio
Nine peopleon Alexander Street
Founder
Elise Carter
Elise trained as an architect in Montréal, then spent eight years designing hotel interiors in Copenhagen. She moved to Vancouver in 2013 and started Lusenne a year later at her kitchen table in Mount Pleasant. Her first client was a neighbour whose bathroom leaked.
The studio- Noah LindqvistAssociate, residentialSince 2016
- Priya AnandKitchens & joinerySince 2017
- Theo MarchandWorkplace & hospitalitySince 2019
- Mira CastellanosStudio managerSince 2020
- Hana OkaforVisualisationSince 2021
- Jun ParkSourcing & stylingSince 2022
Friday review, 4 pm
Visit
Come and look at the samples.
- Address
- 312 Alexander Street
Vancouver, BC - Hours
- Monday to Friday
9 am to 5 pm, by appointment
Journal
Journal
All notes
Client stories
01 / 03We had lived there six years and nobody sat in the living room. Now we sit in it every night. It turned out to be mostly a lamp thing.
Elise talked us out of three things we were sure about. She was right about all three, which is annoying.
People ask about the felt over the lounge more than anything else. It cut the noise by about half. Nobody told us it would do that.
Begin a project
Tell us about the room that isn’t working
- Studio
- 312 Alexander Street
Vancouver, BC