senate
Discover the Clive Christian Senate Collection
The Senate Collection is Clive Christian’s most architecturally formal interpretation of the Art Deco era. Drawing on the stateroom proportions of grand classical buildings, the collection translates that vocabulary into a luxury kitchen and wider interior scheme that feels emphatically stately, yet remains entirely usable in a modern residence.
The defining elements of Senate are its decorative door panelling and its graduated, stepped mouldings, which guide the eye through the cabinetry and into the feature mantles, architraves, and panelled walls that can be specified alongside the core kitchen. The collection has been designed to complement contemporary stepped architectural panelling, which means a Senate kitchen can sit at the centre of a fully co-ordinated interior rather than reading as a standalone furniture install.
Clients searching for an Art Deco kitchen, a Clive Christian Art Deco interior, or a luxury classical kitchen with the formality of a grand stateroom will find Senate the most directly relevant collection in the Clive Christian range. It sits alongside the Architectural Collection in the wider traditional range and complements established country and city residences where decorative discipline and scale matter equally.
“Senate offers a striking balance between tradition and innovation, transforming spaces into expressions of enduring luxury.”
Oliver Deadman, Head of Design, Clive Christian Interiors
Art Deco Detailing and Bespoke Senate Kitchens
art deco inspired
Every Senate kitchen is fully bespoke. Door panelling, the depth and rhythm of the stepped mouldings, the choice of mantle and architrave, and the wider panelled-room detailing are all developed in collaboration with the client and adjusted to the proportions of the home. Available in all classic Clive Christian finishes, the collection adapts comfortably from grand period residences to high-specification contemporary interiors.
transitional elegance
The collection’s signature detail, the graduated step moulding, is what most distinguishes Senate from the wider Clive Christian range. Used across cabinetry runs, island returns, and into adjoining architraves and panelled walls, the moulding establishes a rigorous, classical rhythm throughout the room. Combined with the Art Deco-era decorative panels on the doors themselves, the result is a kitchen that reads with the formality of a stateroom rather than the softness of a country interior.
decorative details
Clients often select Senate when the brief calls for bold, considered materiality (darker timbers, stronger painted finishes, and high-contrast metalwork) in tribute to the powerful interiors that inspired the collection. The same Senate design language can be carried into adjoining dressing rooms, libraries, and bar areas to produce a fully unified scheme across the principal rooms of the home.
bEGIN YOUR BESPOKE SENATE DESIGN JOURNEY
Every Senate project begins with a detailed understanding of the property, its architectural period, and how you intend to use each space. From that foundation, our design team develops a tailored scheme that combines the collection’s signature stepped mouldings, decorative panelling, and finishes with the layout, storage, and adjoining rooms best suited to your home.
View completed Clive Christian projects to see how Senate cabinetry translates across different residences, or browse the wider Clive Christian collections to compare styles before starting your bespoke design journey.
Recent Projects
From the heart of England to fine residences the world over, explore our projects and find inspiration to start your own.
portugal townhouse
henley private residence
woolworth tower
Manchester Country Retreat
