QUARTERS

Furniture with a secret. — Not pet furniture.

Objects you'd place in your home whether or not you owned a cat. That's the test. That's the only test. Five pieces: two walnut side tables with concealed sleeping quarters beneath their tops, a spiral of graduated spindles that climbs like sculpture, and two residence towers built the way a furniture maker builds — platforms, observation domes, slatted rotundas, not a centimetre of carpet or compromise. Every piece in Quarters is designed to live in an upmarket interior first — and to quietly serve another purpose when it matters. The secret is the point.

SOHO

A walnut side table with a tambour-slatted cylinder beneath the top. Books and coffee above; behind the slats, a cushioned apartment your guests will take for a design flourish. The slats are the disguise. The disguise is the point.

MARAIS

The lighter of the two tables. A shelf for the book you're mid-way through, and below it an open alcove with a cushion that will be occupied within the hour. Marais doesn't hide the cat. It frames her.

HELIX

A spiral of graduated walnut spindles climbing a sisal core to a white stone base's full height. From across the room it's kinetic sculpture; to your cat it's a staircase to everywhere. The one piece in Quarters that doesn't keep the secret — it performs it.

GRAMERCY

The full residence. Six levels, two crystal observation domes, a slatted rotunda at its heart, a woven sphere at its foot. Gramercy is what a cat tower looks like when a furniture maker designs it and refuses to compromise on either client.

PIMLICO

The compact quarters. Twin slatted cylinders at different heights, a platform between them carrying an integrated bowl, everything squared and calm. Pimlico houses, feeds, and elevates in less than a metre of floor. Small rooms deserve design too.