Architecture: Raúl Sánchez
Location: Barcelona
Engineering: Marés ingenieros
Builder: GAECO SL.
Carpentry works: Vallés carpintería
Reclaimed marble: Leleni
Textile design: Catalina Montaña
Furnishings: Kragelund, Hay, Kartell, Vitra, Sancal, Richard Lampert
Lighting: Vibia, Vitra, Artemide, Faro
Art: Courtesy of Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo
Photography: José Hevia
In the Derecho del Ensanche neighbourhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona, this 85 square-metre apartment has a long and narrow plan, just six metres wide, created from the division of a larger apartment facing onto a large internal courtyard. The layout has been changed completely, placing two bedrooms with bathroom in the most inner and closed part, the refurbishment has however preserved the rich existing flooring made with Nolla mosaic.
An exquisite carpet that from the long entrance corridor extends into the living room with ever-changing patterns that combine white, beige, brick, blue and some shades of pink and brown. A multi-coloured ‘base’ that the white of the walls, kitchen and furniture further accentuates.
Another dominant presence is the wall element of connection/separation between the living room and the bright veranda overlooking the internal courtyard: a narrow section of the existing load-bearing wall allows the passage of people and natural light and is completely covered in gold leaf, an almost abstract element immediately visible from the entrance to the apartment. ‘Rosegold’ is the finish used on the wall of the kitchen, a pink Portuguese marble made from waste pieces, with a metallic finish for the doors and walls in the long corridor, that halfway along incorporates two sections with open shelves in wood painted intense blue.
