Inside Cinderella Deep, Geller Studio’s Raw and Ritualistic Redfern Workspace.

Some interiors are designed to be looked at. Cinderella Deep, the 200-square-metre workspace by Geller Studio in Redfern, is designed to be lived in—worked in, argued over, poured a glass of wine in. It’s the anchor space for Cinderella House, a private creative collective, and it doesn’t so much announce itself as accumulate, layer by layer, material by material.

Led by Valeria Geller—whose CV moves through RCR Arquitectes in Barcelona, MORQ Architecture in Perth and YSG Studio in Sydney—Geller Studio treats architecture, interiors and furniture as one continuous decision rather than three separate briefs. “Architecture, interiors and objects. Designed as one,” is the line the studio uses to describe its own process, and Cinderella Deep is the clearest evidence yet of what that looks like in practice.

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The materiality does the heavy lifting. Ceilings were cast off-form, their texture pulled from custom silicone moulds developed with Bishop Master Finishes rather than left to chance. The clay-rendered walls are engineered to oxidise, tracking the passage of time and use instead of resisting it. A lattice screen of reclaimed heritage brick filters light into the bathroom without giving up its privacy, and sculptural beams hide the air-conditioning in plain sight while doubling as acoustic control. It’s the kind of detailing that looks effortless and very much isn’t.

Walnut carries the warmth. Sublime Custom Cabinetry translated Donald Judd’s Marfa-honed geometry into rich, sculptural joinery—a nearly eight-metre bar table anchors the space, built for meetings, wine tasting and the kind of conversation that runs long. Nearby, a glass wine fridge framed in galvanised steel stands like a piece of sculpture in its own right, stacked and lit.

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Furniture tells its own layered story. Mario Bellini’s Amanta lounges have been reupholstered by Dusty Road in a mushroom-toned Artesian leather from NSW Leather Co, sitting alongside Verner Panton Spiegel wall lamps and vintage Castorina & Co finds—some of it carried over from the collective’s earlier iteration, originally specified by YSG Studio, a nice full-circle detail given Geller’s own history there. In the bathroom, a custom floating galvanised mirror and a pair of rare Pierre Disderot sconces sit against high-gloss Tuscan Glow surfaces, industrial cool meeting quiet luxury.

The name itself carries weight. Cinderella Deep was a nineteenth-century goldmine in South Africa, in the founder’s hometown, and “cinder”—the ash-born fragment left after a fire—is doing symbolic work about gathering, storytelling and starting again. It’s underpinned by Ubuntu, the philosophy of “I am because we are,” which Cinderella House holds as its operating principle for the entrepreneurs and creatives who share the space.

Cinderella Deep isn’t trying to impress at the door. It’s built for the long haul—for the tenth meeting in that room as much as the first—and that’s the whole point.

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[Images courtesy of Geller Studio. Styling by Joseph Gardner. Photography by Anson Smart.]