Bottega Veneta Palm Beach — Venetian Plaster Ceilings

The Marmorine created the Venetian plaster ceilings in the Bottega Veneta boutique at The Royal Poinciana Plaza in Palm Beach, in collaboration with Gridline Interiors LLC and JRM Construction Management. The interior is built from rich materials — curved walnut walls and shelving, terrazzo floors and wall cladding, sculptural leather and wood furniture — so the ceiling had to read as one calm, continuous surface overhead.

The centerpiece is the oval skylight cove, where the plaster wraps the curved recess in a single uninterrupted finish before running out across the flat ceiling planes of the sales floor.

Venetian plaster is built up in thin layers of lime and marble and compacted by hand, so it reflects light with depth rather than the flat sheen of paint. On a retail ceiling, that softness keeps track lighting and daylight from the storefront windows from reading harsh, and it gives curves like the skylight cove a clean, crisp edge.

Kept pale and fine-textured, the ceiling stays in the background: a refined, mineral surface that complements the warmth of the walnut and the pattern of the terrazzo instead of competing with them.

Boutique ceilings are finished around lighting track, sprinklers, exit signage and the millwork below, usually on a fixed opening schedule. We sequence plaster with the general contractor and the other trades, protect adjacent finishes, and hold a consistent finish standard from the first panel to the punch list.

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