The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have reworked a standard Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed residence and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis motion.
Inventive and life companions Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse renovated the Nineteen Twenties villa, which was as soon as a farmhouse on the outskirts of Valencia, to create a hybrid residence and studio that displays their maximalist strategy to interiors.
“The whole lot revolves across the idea of play,” defined Hernández Palacios, who co-founded Masquespacio with Penasse in 2010.
“We have been influenced by many kinds over the past decade, from New Memphis to artwork deco and futurism,” Penasse added. “We are able to say that our personal house is a mixture of all of it.”
The duo maintained the constructing’s unique timber entrance door and white facade embellished with light-blue window frames and ornate grilles.
Inside, the bottom flooring was reserved for his or her studio, unfold throughout a number of interconnected assembly rooms within the former farmstead, recognized regionally as an alquería.
Right here, Masquespacio restored the constructing’s decoratively patterned hydraulic flooring tiles alongside its conventional doorways and home windows.
Painted in vivid hues, they assist to colour-code the totally different workplace areas, stuffed with the studio’s attribute chunky, lumpy and latticed furnishings.
“As all the time, the venture consists of a mixture of colors, textures and types – one of many predominant points of all our designs, it doesn’t matter what aesthetic we’re working with,” Penasse instructed Dezeen.
On the centre of the house is a double-height inside courtyard illuminated by skylights, with exposed-brick partitions painted in lilac surrounded by wiggly flowerbeds with lush assertion cheese vegetation.
From the courtyard, guests can see as much as an inside balcony on the primary flooring, which is accessed through a purple concrete staircase and comprises the residing areas.
The balcony reveals two sculptural objects – a large inexperienced dome that conceals the couple’s mattress and a curved hot-pink display that hides a seating sales space.
This immersive furnishings – Penasse’s favorite a part of the venture – creates a focus that connects each ranges of the home but additionally supplies extra personal quarters for the couple regardless of the open nature of the general plan.
“There are not any wall partitions to cover our residence [from downstairs] nevertheless it’s stored personal by the mattress’s kind and a semi-transparent inexperienced curtain that permits us to make the most of the pure mild virtually in every single place on the higher flooring,” defined Penasse.
The sleeping space is related to the principle residing area through a tunnel-like hall, which incorporates an all-yellow toilet with triangular cupboards and partitions clad with a mosaic of handmade ceramic tiles.
Reverse the toilet is a vibrant open-air terrace that includes round home windows and related built-in seating to Bun Turin – an Italian burger joint designed by Masquespacio with boxy blue-tiled tables created to appear to be swimming swimming pools.
“Geometry will be discovered throughout our home,” defined Hernández Palacios. “The whole lot is a sport of circles and triangles.”
The sunshine blue kitchen consists of massive, triangular alcoves and cabinets completed in pure stone and aluminium, designed to hide utilities.
There may be additionally an island produced from veiny marble and petite glazed tiles. Bespoke Masquespacio bar stools had been wrapped in matching pale blue cloth.
Subsequent to the open-plan kitchen, the residing and eating areas embody extra brightly colored furnishings from the studio’s Mas Creations assortment, which options the identical twisted and angular shapes and smooth upholstery because the items downstairs.
Flooring-to-ceiling curtains kind a backdrop for a snaking lime inexperienced couch, whereas darkish inexperienced eating chairs with pyramidal backrests had been positioned round a jewel-like glass desk.
“Ninety-five per cent of the furnishings and objects in our home are a part of our Mas Creations assortment, regionally designed and produced by our studio,” stated Penasse.
Equally daring initiatives from Masquespacio embody a restaurant in Milan, Italy, with interiors that take cues from futuristic spaceships and the primary Mango Teen retailer in Barcelona that includes vivid graphic shapes.
The images is courtesy of Masquespacio.
