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SINGULARES MAGAZINE #9 JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
EDITORIAL
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THE TEAM
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CONTRIBUTORS
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KALEIDOSCOPE 12 Winter glamour 14 A perfect balance 16 New Year, old deco 18 In just a click 20 Warm winter 22 January in full colour
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FROM... 1863 Radiator 1863
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GENIUS LOCI Gang and the wool
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COMMUNITY 2.0 The Messy Tree Studio
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SINGULARES AT HOME 76 When ingenuity meets coincidence 106 A charming house
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SINGULARES PREMISES 120 Jocs de cuina 134 Cazador 146 La Tierra Roja, where vintage charm becames a hotel
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CUTLERY... FOR DESSERT Frixuelos with hot chocolate
Cover image Ana誰s Gordils TABLE OF CONTENTS
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STARTING AGAIN There is something magical in the beginning of the year, in January. This month always comes loaded with new projects, purposes, hopes ... we all hope to collect a lot of good experiences. The list of ideas for 2014 in Singulares Magazine is endless. You won’t have to wait a lot to see them and enjoy them. 2014 certainly comes loaded with many (and good) projects that you are going to be able to go discover every day, month after month, issue by issue, throughout this year. But ... what is for decoratively? Singulares Magazine will continue going for originality, creativity and good design. Because we love mixture, simplicity and colour and we are going to keep doing what we like and enjoying it.
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We love showing our houses as they are, with no makeup or hairstyle. This is where the true essence of those who live there spread making it unique and exceptional. We are fortunate to enjoy the freedom that is makes us truly Singulares, we cannot imagine any of our reports otherwise.
to an end with a delicious dessert from Más allá de 365 Sonrisas. Houses, locals, recipes, DIY projects ... whatever it is, each page tells a story that you are going to be able to discover step by step. Definitely an exciting year awaits us.
This issue leads us to wander around really trendy bars and restaurants, as Cazador in Madrid; full of sophisticated elegance as Q de Barella, in Valencia, or wonderful hotels that invite us to relax, as the one that we visited in Caceres. We also opened the doors of two magnificent homes, one in Madrid and another in Barcelona, and the new study Bea from Con Botas de Agua and Lucia M Photography to delight ourselves, and finally, come
EDITORIAL
Belén López Editor in chief
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LUCÍA M. PHOTOGRAPHY luciamphotography.com
THE TEAM
STAFF
Belén López
Elena Valdés
Fran Soguero
Antioquía Interiorismo
Ministry of Deco
Etxekodeco
Maria Marcet
Natalia Ferrero
Olga Fernández
Tránsito Inicial
BlancoRoto
Mes Caprices Belges
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CONTRIBUTORS
Alexandra y Luis Bloggers
Álvaro Leco Photographer
Anaïs Gordils Photographer
Ariana Ruglio Translator
Bárbara de la Fuente Interiorista
Bea Gaspar Blogger
Jessica Quadra Photographer
Lilia Koutsoukou Photographer
Loles Ferrero Designer
Lucía Marcano Photographer
Marta Fuertes Blogger
Mercedes Pérez Photographer and blogger
Padilla & Rigau Photographers CONTRIBUTORS
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BELEN’S FAVOURITES
SUMMERTIME WINTER GLAMOUR Although it's cold, we try not suffer it and while we wait for warm days to come back we fulfill everything with elegant glamour.
Turbant Zara
Clothes rack La Tienda a la Vuelta de la Esquina
Clutch Accesorize
Desk Énola
Fan chair Batavia 12 | SINGULARESMAG #9
Cushion Deleite Design
Coffe mug and plate Hermes
Wallpaper Osborne & Little
Stool C么t茅 Dec贸
Marc Jacobs coat My Theresa
Gustav Klimt Book Taschen Fornasetti Candle Amara
Brass walnut Alqui谩n KALEIDOSCOPE
Ring Pomellato
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ELENA’S FAVOURITES
A PERFECT banlance Between white and black, between rest and movement, we start the year trying to find the ideal point of balance, our vital harmony. Intachable Wallpaper by Jorge Zuazo Tres Tintas
Facet watch Deleite Design
Lampshade Ocott
Cube side table Zara Home
Vertical garden Monamour
Sweatshirt Zara 14 | SINGULARESMAG #9
Marianna art print Society6
Cushion Zara Home
Hanging lamp David Weeks Studio GAN carpet MoisĂŠs Showroom
Nansa swing Mermelada Estudio
Book Taschen
Hedgehog cushion Lua Nord
Placemat Ocott Squares blanket Martinez Medina KALEIDOSCOPE
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FRAN’S FAVOURITES
NEW YEAR, Old Deco We love furniture and decorative items with stories behind them. To begin the New Year we suggest "old" pieces (not shabby), which add a plus of uniqueness and warmth to the decor of our spaces.
Classic moneybox Nitelshop
50’s office table Nitelshop Deutsch vase Alquián Ceramic candelabra NonVacui
Ole Wanscher’s rocking chair Nitelshop 16 | SINGULARESMAG #9
Cushion Cover HiloxHilo
Wood vintage suitcase La tienda de Etxekodeco
Two night stand, teak, Sweden, 50’s Reno Industrial side tables Indoors Madrid
Ceiling lamp Reno
Elm wood armchair by Lucien Ercolani NonVacui
English pharmacy old jar NonVacui
Silver pineapple tray Alquián
Sun mirror, 50's La tienda de Etxekodeco KALEIDOSCOPE
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MARIA’S FAVOURITES
In just a CLICK We release a new year that pushes us to discover the new collections in stores for our favorite brands. Items purchased in a single click that allows us to wear our home a fresh start.
Zinc base with handle El Sofá Amarillo
Ceramic wolf pendant Guille García-Hoz
Mesita auxiliar MissT The Nude Design Sofa Maisons du Monde
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“Grandma’s” Cushion The Flea
Illustrated Wood plates Raul del Sol
Print Project Party Studio
Boxes Shelve Lua Nord
Lamp Ikea
Mint & Wool cart Deleite Armchair Ikea
Ancient linen Cushion The Flea CojĂn "Mountain Friends" Lua Nord KALEIDOSCOPE
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NATALIA’S FAVOURITES
WARM winter
Triangular Vinyl Stickers Lua Nord
By the hand of the New Year all new purposes begin. Among them, enjoying a cosy home to make from this freezing winter a warm one.
Componibili Kartell Classic 03AM Puff Lua Nord XL Paper Bag Lua Nord Coco Boots Myblüchers
Linen cushion Zara Home 20 | SINGULARESMAG #9
Mohair Blanket Zara Home
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook Anthropologie
Hanging Plant Pot Hruskaa - Etsy
Floor lamp Nordicthink
Sofa bed La Oca
Armchair Nordicthink
Karoto Martinez Medina Cutlery Zara Home
Dinner service Anthropologie KALEIDOSCOPE
Geo Vacuum Coffee Maker Deleite Design
Wood boxes El Sofรก Amarillo
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OLGA’S FAVOURITES
january in full colour
Glass container Côté Decó
The low temperatures are one more excuse to add colour and warmth in each room.
Football Lamp Room Service Design
Gabi Velvet divan Habitat
Mariposa furniture Côté Decó
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Creative family h Anthropologie
Marble Candle holder La Maison de Anna G
Glass bottle El Sofá Amarillo
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Deer Blue Ibiscus Soft Heads
Coco Sensual Armchair Vinçon
Juego de té La Malconttenta en Etsy
Gallinero table Ignacio del Toro
Bolso Clotilde Malababa KALEIDOSCOPE
Pompeia necklace Cua de Cuc
Paul & Joe Moisturizing Facial Mask Olivia Soaps SINGULARESMAG #9 | 23
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RADIATOR 1863 It was in the mid-nineteenth century when radiators first appeared. Its aim was to replace the old coal stoves. In 1863 Joseph Nason and Robert Briggs designed a model using vertical wrought iron tubes, which were bolted to a cast iron base. A few years later, in 1870 Nelson H. Bundy invented the "Bundy Loop", a radiator with curved tubes, which being in the same space offered greater heating surface. Its use quickly became popular and it is considered the predecessor of radiators such as we know them today.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: MERCEDES PÉREZ.
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The design of these new radiators allowed manufacturers to offer a more flexible product, as simply attaching vertical sections it was possible to get different sized radiators. The Victorian style rapidly applied to these devices, FROM... 1863
giving them a more careful and ornate appearance, becoming authentic decorative objects in homes.
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Until the mid-twentieth century the central heating was a luxury item and therefore the radiators. From the 70 its use became widespread and often radiators attempted to be camouflaged as they were only considered as functional elements. Today the trend 30 | SINGULARESMAG #9
has changed and radiators are back in fashion through the restoration of old appliances but also having the option of getting reissues of older models.
* Since a blog interested in the origins, because everything around us has a story. * Mercedes PĂŠrez, photographer and author of the blog Galletas de Ante, takes pictures for Singulares of one of the corners of her home in Madrid. FROM... 1863
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PASIÓN POR LAS COSAS BONITAS
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FRIXUELOS WITH HOT CHOCOLATE Marta Fuertes is an Asturian that has been living in Brussels for three years. She collaborates regularly in Singulares offering her gluten-free recipes from the blog "Mรก allรก de 365 sonrisas" and this time she brings us a recipe typical from western Asturias, where she comes from.
PRODUCTION: MARTA FUERTES. OLGA FERNร NDEZ. PHOTOGRAPHY: MARTA FUERTES.
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The frixuelos (a type of Asturian crêpe) are taken alongside with a hot chocolate in winter days. The dough is the easiest part, the “hardest” part is how to fry them but anyone can do it, as for chocolate. In the rest of Asturias they call frixuelos to the same dough but with the shape of a pancake, while in the West there are usually done with this rather unique way.
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FRIXUELOS (4 SERVES) · 3 eggs · 500ml of whole milk · 325g of flour (you can use wheat flour or, for gluten-free floue, use a Mix for dough) · 1 teaspoon of baking soda · 1 teaspoon of salt · Oil to fry · Sugar to sprinkle (optional)
In a large bowl whip the eggs. Then incorporate the milk with a pitcher by slowly dropping a thin stream and whipping. Add the salt and finally the sifted flour and the baking soda. Mix vigorously until smooth. In case you had lumps you can use an electric mixer for a completely smooth the dough. Let the dough rest for half an hour at room temperature. Once past that time, heat a pan with oil for frying, pour the dough on a pitcher with spout and wait until the oil is very hot. Start pouring the dough slowly forming concentric circles that start from the middle of the pan. Let the dough cook that way around about half a minute and turned it carefully with a slotted spoon. Cook the frixuelo on the other side and take it out straining the oil well. Do the same with the remaining dough until you have a "mountain" of frixuelos, and serve them preferably hot and freshly made.
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HOT CHOCOLATE (4 SERVES) · 1l of whole milk
· 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom
· 100ml of cream
· 50g de cornflour
· 100g of icing sugar
· 500g of dark chocolate insmall pieces
· The rind of an orange · 1 vanilla pod
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or dark choclate pearls
In a large casserole pot heat the milk with the cream, the sugar, the orange rind, the shelled vanilla bean and the cardamom over low heat. Let it infuse well without boiling. Remove the orange rind, add the cornflour diluted in water and stir. When it come to a boil, add the chocolate and let it melt completely. Mix well. Let simmer low heat during10 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking to the bottom of the casserole. Let it rest a bit and serve it hot with the frixuelos.
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SÍGUENOS EN...
GANG AND THE WOOL What might a designer, interior designer and lover of nature yearn most than decorating her own glasshouse? We discover Wool and the Gang, a space dedicated to plants and flowers located in the heart of Collserola where a greenhouse has become the physical reflection of a fulfilled dream.
PRODUCTION: MARIA MARCET. PHOTOGRAPHY: JESSICA QUADRA, PADILLA & RIGAU.
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Former bank carpentry dominates the place, offering Manuela a base in which to work each floral creation that emerges from her hands. We meet in her particular garden where Wool and the Gang take physical form to unleash the orders received by this floral studio within the city. Blurred in the distance the silhouette of a greenhouse observe us, adding with its presence a pastoral ambien-
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ce to a garden that already is charming and where it is common to see mixed buckets full of varied and aromatic flowers. A place also for storing vases, ribbons, laces and tools along with flowers which find shelter in there, just as part of her creations.
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Committed to craftwork and being carried along by the colours and textures that determines each type of flower, Manuela and her team use nature along with a correct combination of additional materials to create a unique experience for their customers. GENIUS LOCI
Customers whose ideas and suggestions make the essence of each new project, adapting their floral work to circumstances to provide the perfect culmination for any event, celebration or corner decoration.
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GENIUS LOCI
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As she tell us, her love for nature arose when she was just a little girl, as she use to spent long hours in the garden with her grandfather, who use to cultivate the best dahlias of her town in Uruguay.
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Similarly, during the weekends in their visits to the countryside, her mother taught her not only the name of the flowers and to take care of them, but also to observe the leaves, stems and their different textures.
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As an extension of her work, she also holds monthly workshops that seek to favour one particular flower or a concrete concept design according to each season of the year, which defines the guidelines of each workshop.
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Her latest project: offering her space for celebrating birthday parties or friends meetings while enjoying an afternoon snack with a piece of cake, a flowers workshop and an event to remember by pictures taken by contributor photographers.
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GANG AND THE WOOL gangandthewool.com
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THE MESSY TREE STUDIO
Located in Madrid’s downtown, the studio of Bea and Lucía, two lively and working moms, is a place tailored to their tastes, with a decoration selected following their emotions, such as the ones that led them to choose the less perfect olive tree in the nursery, and that now it is their symbol.
PRODUCTION: NATALIA FERRERO. PHOTOGRAPHY: LUCÍA MARCANO. BEA GASPAR.
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Just by crossing the door you can breathe the very positive atmosphere that fills the environment, with the welcome message that reminds you... "Don't forget to smile today".
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Severals details complement the studio: old cameras, stems, flowers, ceramics, zinc houses ... and huge printed photos of the sessions that Lucia does occasionally to their daughters.
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Lucia, photographer by profession, and Bea, passionate and totally dedicated to the world of communication and soul of El Gato con Botas de Agua, met one day in Grey Elephant during a washi tape’s workshop that Bea taught to parents and children. They get on from the start and from this moment on they didn’t stop getting on in other courses and meetings. Soon, Bea asked Lucia to carry out a photo shoot of her second pregnancy. She was so pleased with the result that a few days after the birth of the little girl they worked together again in a photo shoot of the baby, Lola. And they kept meeting to have breakfast or take
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a coffee and discuss the dreams they I had... "We used to meet for breakfast occasionally and fantasized about the idea of having, one day, an office together," Bea tells me. Until, in one of these breakfasts, Lucía told Bea that she had found a space in which to become independent and start her own studio. Bea had been looking for a while for a little space to share and so stop working from home. At that moment, the wish they were dreaming of for a few months came true and they decided to work together (but not scrambled), each in her work but under the same roof.
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They have completed the studio with gifts from family and friends, as happened with the last time Lucía's parents visited her, when the gave her the deer Oh my deer of Guille García-Hoz she already had payed attention to.
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The development has taken some months. The refurbish was commissioned to the wonderful study Madrid in Love with the premise of creating a space to work so comfortable as a house. According to what 66 | SINGULARESMAG #9
Lucia explains, "I wanted to make it appear more like a living room than an office." The joint together between Lucia + Bea + Madrid in Love was promising and, in fact, the result is a cosy studio, dressed with
the finest materials, with the warmth of wood and a taste of workshop brought by the walls and the concrete floors.
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Over the centre table and facing the desk, they placed decorative carbon filament bulbs; a floor lamp and even the candle’s light complete the lighting of the study.
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It is a unique place, tailored to its owners, in which they have taken care of every detail. They are usually seated working on the computer, but sometimes they have meetings with customers or suppliers or they organize photo shoots. Sometimes they make ginger houses with their girls
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and their friends... so they needed a flexible and functional space. Therefore, almost all the furniture was made to measure and also modular, so they can use it in all its different functions, depending on the occasion. The rest of the furniture has been acquired in some incursions
The natural olive was also a gift from the parents of Lucía, though she was responsible for choosing it, after discovering it alone in the nursery, apart from the rest of beautiful olive trees. And that was exactly what captivated her, that it wasn't perfect... And, as Bea says, the disheveled olive (that's how they call it) has become the symbol of the studio.
that Bea and Lucía have done in the Madrid’s Rastro. The lovely table presiding the space is from Caravan, a recovered furniture shop that can also be found in the vicinity of the Rastro.
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The study is so versatile that it is also rented for different events or special occasions. Perfect to create a small pop-up store space, for pre-
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sentations of collections, mini-events of exclusive brands or even small dinners or breakfasts.
The large table presiding this space is a Caravan which, together with the group of mismatched chairs, gives a vintage twist to the studio.
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I want to be more like a living room that an office says Lucía COMMUNITY 2.0
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LUCÍA M. PHOTOGRAPHY luciamphotography.com CON BOTAS DE AGUA conbotasdeagua.com
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WHEN INGENUITY MEETS COINCIDENCE A home where purchased furniture lives together with gifted household goods, and above all, where owners have make the most of their pieces.
PRODUCTION: OLGA FERNÁNDEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANAÏS GORDILS.
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The EGG chair shares space with a couch offered by some friends, just like the sensual red armchair Coco 91. The hanging lamp is from Zara Home.
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Scandinavian dining chairs were purchased on Ebay. The doors and windows of this area are painted in black.
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For over ten years, Georg has been living in Barcelona with his partner Anton. Anton is public relations and Georg is a n associate of an architects studio and his gift for decoration and to find pieces anywhere in the city, or even outside of it, is reflected in the house in which they live.
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Taking advantage of the room brightness coming from its large windows, they painted the walls in dark brownish shades, bringing out its high ceilings and the original moldings.
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The sculpture of the living room is one of the street findings of Georg to which he added a pedestal to porexpan.
Located in the neighbourhood of Gracia in Barcelona, the first thing that marvels us when getting inside is its wonderful ceilings and its tiled mosaic tessera floors. We found a great hall that leads to a living room SINGULARES AT HOME
full of pieces worthy of a museum, from which you can enjoy a superb block courtyard views, and from where we can discern the roofs of Barcelona.
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The buffet dining room was purchased at the boutique Déjà Vu and stores antique details from different sources.
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The TV area painting is the work of photographer Jordi Bernado.
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adapt objects, giving a new use to them as the living room or the master bathroom lamps, which actually were metal circular shapes that he joined and that now illuminate this stay.
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The butterfly chair, located in the master bedroom add sobriety to the neutral shades of this area.
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The pendant fixture is an idea of the owner who united two metals found in the street.
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The sink is original, as are the borders that were painted in blue. The freestanding bath was added subsequently.
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A large antique mirror is used as a headboard. The tables are a gift from some friends.
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Ikea furniture combined with original furniture of the kitchen painted in aubergine shades.
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A spectacular hallway painted in blues hades separates the owners’ space and the area that can be rented.
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The living room of the apartment to rent keeps the original wallpaper.
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Exquisite furnishings is mixed in different styles, from pieces founded in the streets to given away furniture or cheap household goods as the black buffet from Ikea.
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The armchair was found in the street like the black iron chair.
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The small kitchen is made of furniture in wood and White.
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A CHARMING HOUSE
We visited a small apartment filled with a cosy and quiet elegance, expressing a philosophy of life and an unconditional love of beauty, in a building with more than one hundred years.
PRODUCTION: BELÉN LÓPEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ÁLVARO LECO.
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We stop at a building from the late nineteenth century, which houses light apartments with high ceilings, rooms that connect to each other and so full of charm as the one we will see in this report. An apartment with an eclectic style, a colourful and modern spirit, respecting some classic elements of the original house, as the pillars of wood, and which is ideal for its floors, also of wood, for its subtle combination between the past and the present, for its vintage touches, and for the simple shapes that put a detail in every corner.
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Wonderful, never better said, the lamp of Chen Karlsson acquired in Paris.
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When their current tenants viewed the apartment for the first time they instantly realized its full potential. The apartment is located in the centre of Madrid, just a few meters away from La Gran VĂa, La Plaza de Espa-
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Ăąa or the neighbourhood of Callao. Previously, the house had been already renovated by the owner and had a lot of undeniable charms.
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Another detail that does not go unnoticed is the original World War II first-aid kit.
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In a home with such unique building elements as columns, an original decoration was necessary, so in this house the aim was to combine pieces of different styles to achieve personal environments. In the living room, a classic sofa coexists with a couple of tables of design,
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the Eames DSW chair and pieces purchased at flea markets and vintage shops, many of them in some of their many travels. Note the shelf of recycled boxes or the Chen Karlsson’s lamp acquired in Paris.
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Aged wood, worn metal and an eclectic decor that combines vintage and New York inspired industrial style giving this home a trendy aesthetics, with a personal and unique character. 118 | SINGULARESMAG #9
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JOCS
DE CUINA
Quique Barella takes advantage of the playful side of the cooking, having fun in the design of each dish and enjoying the work leading his restaurant, a space on Valencia tailor-made to suit their cooking games.
PRODUCTION: ELENA VALDÉS.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: LILIA KOUTSOUKOU.
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"Q de Barella is the project where I have better lunch / ate / dinner, thanks to the fact that Quique developed the menu while we were working on the whole creative process." These are the words of Josemi, the interior designer responsible for the adaptation of this local, that previously also housed a restaurant. Fortunately for him, in this sense, the kitchen suffered no change in its location, which made it possible that, every few
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minutes, Quique kept intact the energy of his team and they were able to give taste tablespoons of their new dishes. And, certainly, the energy was mandatory to adapt the space in a very short period of time, to achieve adapting it to the type of kitchen that Quique wanted to implement and the type of service he wanted to offer its customers.
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ting out that the personal and the professional relationship that join them helped to relax tensions. And the implication of the couple, from the concept around which revolves the restaurant to the choice of materials and finishes, were determining. Elsa suggested including in the pro-
ject La Factoría Plástica, who ended up collaborating with the design and the finish of decorative pieces, basic ultimately to understand the continuous reference to the game world that the owners wanted to capture. From their skilful hands emerged the mural "Keep calm and jocs de cuina", SINGULARES PREMISES
the Q neon sign in one of the dining room’s walls or the decorative sheet that collect the premises on which lays the cuisine of Quique.
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Decorative pieces are basic to understand the continuous reference to the game world that the owners wanted to capture
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room. The old wine cellar is now the service area, between the two dining rooms, a functional space that houses the bar, the cloakroom, the storage area and the reservations desk. The main dining room, meanwhile, consists of tables of different sizes, depending on the number
of diners as they seek for the most possible flexibility. It is a warm space, in which ash grey has been used for the walls to get a sense of depth and contrast to off-white, also used in the interior. The touch of colour in decoration refers once again to the game world, to experimentation and SINGULARES PREMISES
the fun that Quique Barella exercises in their dishes, which are a compendium of himself, his attitude and his creativity.
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Q DE BARELLA Calle Finlandia, 7 路 Valencia qdebarella.com
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CAZADOR It’s not one more bar. With a name impossible to forget and a 70’s retro aesthetic that makes us fall totally in love Cazador is already among our favourites.
PRODUCTION: BELÉN LÓPEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ÁLVARO LECO.
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Located on the street Pozas, in the heart of Malasaña, Cazador is one of those bars that catch you by surprise but that make you fall in love instantly. The owners, Enrique and Osama didn’t want it to be one more bar and they have certainly made it by giving to the local an impossible name to forget and a 70’s retro aesthetic that totally wins our heart.
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Its decor is somewhere between contemporary art and the kitsch pieces you might find in your grandmother's house. Its large windows open to the outside as if there 140 | SINGULARESMAG #9
was a terrace with a view. The tapestries with hunting scenes, animal horns and other furniture rescued from antiques shops and garage sales are mixed with metallic finis-
hes and spectacular designer lamps, almost all of them on sale, as the one we can see on the bar designed by Angel Tausia. An eclectic environment where the ode to rural does SINGULARES PREMISES
not impede that detail refers us to a more industrial and cosmopolitan decor.
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Cazador is a very cozy place where to take the vermouth, a coffee after dinner, a beer in the afternoon or a drink if small draft beers are lengthen to go well into the night. Among its morsels, toast and bagels are noteworthy, as well as the impressive menĂş of handemade cakes, exotic coffees, organic teas, cocktails, cupcakes or homemade jams, with which you can accompany your assorted pastries and enjoy the brunch on weekends. SINGULARES PREMISES
Another thing that distinguishes Cazador from any other bar is having the walls covered with the works of different emerging artists and features an open living room, its owners call "private hunting" dedicated to all kinds of activities, from art and photography exhibitions to books and records presentations, flea markets, thematic workshops and poetry readings.
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CAZADOR Calle Pozas, 7 · Madrid facebook.com/cazadorbar
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LA TIERRA ROJA, WHERE VINTAGE CHARM BECAMES A HOTEL We visit La Tierra Roja, a litlle hotel decorated with passion and care.
PRODUCTION: FRAN SOGUERO.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ISABEL MARTÍN.
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We have visited Aliseda, a beautiful Extremaduran frontier town 28 kilometres away from Cรกceres, nestled in the Sierra de San Pedro, a paradise for lovers of nature. And we have come here to visit La Tierra Roja, a
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charming little hotel (and I say it in a positive way, no undervaluing it, because it only has 6 rooms) providing a high-class hotel service; not for nothing it is rated as one of the best hotels of all Extremadura.
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La Tierra Roja occupies a building of traditional architecture (actually, a manor house), from the late nineteenth century. María, the owner, has addressed the design of the rehabilitation, which have complied with all the identity elements of the house, like the red slate floors, the hydraulic tile and the hand made clay floors, the vaulted ceilings, etc. María is also responsible for the decoration of the six rooms of the hotel, as well as of the common areas (living room, dining room, garden, etc.). The decoration has been guided by a fundamental premise, the respect for nature, since most of the pieces (furniture, decorative items, tableware, etc.) are second hand. María, an art and decoration passionate (and a great expert in both facets), has been acquiring, as she herself explains, much of these elements "with passion and affection" at flea markets and thrift stores of Portugal, although there are pieces of almost every city she has visited.
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Not missing at La Tierra Lejano artworks, especially contemporary ones, which maintain an exceptional and fruitfully dialogue with the pieces of furniture representing diffe-
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rent styles, from the Art Deco of the 20s and 30s to the retro style of the 60s and 70s, without forgetting the nineteenth-century classicism of the age of the house.
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La Tierra Roja is a real enjoyment for all those who love the decor, as MarĂa loves sharing her hobby with guests, explaining the stories hidden behind each of the pieces, tell them
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where she managed to discover the pieces and, best of all, she sells the items to anyone wishing to acquire them. A real treat!
LA TIERRA ROJA Plaza de Extremadura, 9 Aliseda 路 C谩ceres latierraroja.com
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