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SINGULARES MAGAZINE #7 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
EDITORIAL Vignettes that tell a story
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THE TEAM
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CONTRIBUTORS
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KALEIDOSCOPE 18 Autumn trends 20 Perennial and deciduous 22 Vintage is in the air 24 Grandma’s living room 26 It’s harvest time 28 Autumn in black
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MANU FACTUM A turnaround of use
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GENIUS LOCI We meet in the studio of La Factoría Pástica
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ADVERTORIAL Home sweet home
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SINGULARES AT HOME 76 Eclectic & sober 102 The bedroom of a Superhero 120 A house renovated with a lot of art 134 A Scandinavian oasis in the heart of Idaho
SINGULAR & MASCULINE Asier Rua Interiors
Cover image Belén Imaz TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TIMES FLIES! October is a special month for Singulares Magazine. It seems like it was just yesterday but it’s been a year since we presented our 1st issue and we are already on the 7th! I remember those days like a real challenge, it wasn’t easy to raise what it would be (and is) the first digital magazine of interior design in Spain. I remember working against the clock all the time but in the end, the effort was worth it. We found our space, our plot. Since then, there are many who had accompanied us and had been faithful to each of our numbers, which is saying a lot because we are more than 17000 Singulares around the world and we keep growing.
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Those who already know us and have visited our pages this year, know our emphasis on quality content, to transmit a breath of fresh air every two months with the magazine and also for you to discover something new every day through our blog: a designer, a shop, a local ... We don’t consider ourselves as visionaries, much less, decohunters or trendsetters (two words so fashionable right now), although it is true that we like to be up to date. However, we believe that we are non-conformist and courageous; I think, I dare say, even revolutionary and always willing to go one step further.
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During this year we have found our own balance and we invite you to continue coming out with us from monotony and that you keep enjoying Singulares.
Belén López
Editor in chief
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VIGNETTES THAT TELL A STORY Sometimes when we look around us, whether in our home or in some other space, we are unable to find a visual rest. Rest that are in harmonious and visually appealing corners created specifically for this purpose. On a small scale we discover the work of Gloribell Lebron, interior and graphic designer, both professions have helped her to understand and apply in her objects’ compositions facets as important as symmetry, reflected in a correct balance of colors and sizes.
PRODUCTION: MARIA MARCET. GLORIBELL LEBRON PHOTOGRAPHY: GLORIBELL LEBRON.
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When it comes to decoration, sometimes by just changing certain objetcs or by moving then slightly from its initial position we succeed in creating an environment for that space so it can transmit sensations entirely new. Any
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surface, whether it’s a shelf, a bookcase or a chest of drawers, cab becomes an ideal base in which to deposit our most precious objects, all placed with care to give personal vignettes that make up our day to day.
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Gloribell creates vignettes not just to decorate a corner, some of them are like stories told through the objects that make them up and that she daily shares in her Instagram account, @idknowhowshedoesit. Gloribell is also responsible for the initiative #8decoshots together with Yanira Gate. They aiming to promote crea-
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tivity in the decorative field between users of this fervent social network, encouraging followers to participate once a month in the contest they organize with photographs of decorative vignettes with adapted to the topic set each time.
Gloribell Lebron knowhowshedoesit.com
Taking the idea of the word “read”, Gloribell has created for the occasion a composition of objects where words, letters and numbers seem to come out of the book.
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THE TEAM
Belén López
Elena Valdés
Fran Soguero
Ministry of Deco
Etxekodeco
Maria Marcet
Natalia Ferrero
Olga Fernández
Tránsito Inicial
BlancoRoto
Mes Caprices Belges
Antioquía Interiorismo
STAFF
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CONTRIBUTORS
Álvaro Leco Photographer
Anaïs Gordils Photographer
Ariana Ruglio Translator
Asier Rua Photographer
Belén Imaz Photographer
Deiana Petrova Crafter
Gloribell Lebron Interior designer
Javier León Photographer
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BELEN’S FAVOURITES
AUTUMN TRENDS All will be ESSENTIALS as in our homes as in our closets. Let’s enjoy autumn!
Jacket BDBA
Mint gre Vintage
Clutch H&M
Chippendale chair Obgetology
Trousers Zara
Shoes Dior 18 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Wall-paper Trestintas
Mirror Obgetology
Plate Aintzane MartĂnez de Luna
Lamp Abyu Lighting
een chest of drawers and Chic
Bracelet Proenza Shoulder Lady Marco Zanusso Sofa Neutra
Cushion Ocott
Decorative magnifying glass Zara Home Nest table Detana
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ELENA’S FAVOURITES
PERENNIAL and deciduous Some loves at first sight last as long as the station lasts, others will join for a while. The best thing of design is, with no doubt, that the leaves don’t fall and that, perennial, they seek a corner at home, always different, where to stay.
SOHO Rose gold watch Aristocrazy
Lamp Texton Vintage
T-Shirt Dolores Promesas
Bag Compañía Fantástica
Chair e15 Fur blanket Zara Home 20 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Mikado buffet by Front Porro Carton Unicorn Urban Outfitters
Print PPStudio
Wire Zigzag Side table MartĂnez Medina
Stockholm Carpet Ikea Pros and cons notebook Urban Outfitters KALEIDOSCOPE
Porcelain fountain Rue Vintage SINGULARESMAG #7 | 21
FRAN’S FAVOURITES
VINTAGE is in the air It has been a trend for several seasons but stays so young and with such vitality as before. Autumn smells like Vintage.
Coat stand Mandra TV furniture Vintage Maisons du Monde
Kina San Clemente Real Fábrica Española
Eau de Cologne Real Fábrica Españo
Rockabilly armchair Chachi & Chachi
Astorga Roja Side table Mandra
Ceramic tiles “Tradic 09” Mosaista 22 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Chromed metal lamp with fabric lampshade La Cabina
Modular shelves Chachi & Chachi
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Mademoiselle armchair La Cabina
Book from Kate Beavis Amazon
Wicker French chair La Casita de Margaux
XXI earthenware bowl Estudio L贸pez KALEIDOSCOPE
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MARIA’S FAVOURITES
Grandma’s LIVING ROOM Objects that nowadays find a rebirth, either through pure lines of traditional brands that don’t forget the thoroughness of its porcelain or through the return of designs that revive by themselves from obsolete.
Birds lampsahde House of Hackney
Iron Cabin Log Holder Terrain
Buttoned upholstered armchair La Oca
The parrot party Lladró Atelier 24 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Kensington dinner service La Cartuja de Sevilla
Ivy Kokedamas Vinรงon
Bow necklace with beads Hoss Intropia
Bird leg side table Zara Home
Flights of Fancy Wallpaper Anthropologie Henna and Shea mask Henna Morena
Book Botanic Chic Anthropologie
Flower cushion Carolinablue KALEIDOSCOPE
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NATALIA’S FAVOURITES
It’s harvest time An undeniable moment of this period of the year as the harvesting of the grape begins, rain starts to fall and sunset is full of magic, as the one that we found in this objects. Wine L’Inconscient Les Cousins
Wine glasses Zara Home
Side Table Pion Sancal
Metalic dots dress Hoss Homeless
Eco Dog Martínez Medina Natural carpet Canevas Gandía Blasco GAN 26 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Ray lamp by Tomas Kral Petite Friture
Chaise longue Audrey Koo International
Foulard Uterqüe Boiler Alessi Martínez Medina Sugar bowl Alessi Martínez Medina
Side table Maisons du Monde
Wellington boots Hunter
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OLGA’S FAVOURITES
AUTUMN in black Columbus globe Nitelshop
With some accessories in colour to undermine sobriety and add some ease. A gesture to childhood mixed with objects from the old times. Small table vase Lua Nord
Lövbacken Side table Ikea
Jersey punto Zara
Pumps Bimba&Lola 28 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Trousers Zara
Vintage Botanical poster Alquian Maison Hansen wall lamp Nitelshop
Lissoni sofa Friz Hansen Naharro Kay Bojesen monkey Nitelshop
Indian multi-coloured bench KATMANDOU Maisons du Monde
Armchair Sweet 27 Ottoyanna
Chelsea Liz bag Hakei
Mughal Crewelwork Rug Anthropologie KALEIDOSCOPE
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ASIER RUA INTERIORS He was born in San Sebastián in 1984, but has lived in Madrid for more than ten years. In his curriculum, there are works for architecture and decoration studies as Erico Navazo, Unlugar, Guille García-Hoz, Luis Puerta, Lorenzo Castillo, 2arquitectos, Javier Sol, Miel Arquitectos, Retamalalburquerque, Tako con K and also the Cuca Guixeras communication agency.
PRODUCTION: BELÉN LÓPEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ASIER RUA.
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He regularly collaborates with Singulares Magazine and has also participated in publications such as El Pa铆s Semanal, YoDona, MiCasa, Frame Magazine, Casa Claudia Portugal, Proyecto Contract, etc., and with publishers like Parram贸n Editorial, Hustpas China and Ifenspace China. 34 | SINGULARESMAG #7
On September the 12th he enlists in a crowdfunding that seeks funding for the publication of his first book: Madrid Interiors, designed by Folch Studio and hosted on the Verkami platform. Anyone who wants to participate can do so through the website Madrid Interiors, where you can buy the book or make SINGULAR & MASCULINE
greater contributions. You will receive different compensations: from a postcard to the book passing through an original picture photograph or even, in the case of major contributions, a photographic report of your own home.
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Which was the first photographer or photography that made you feel something special? It was a photo of Alberto Schommer. I found it in the library of San Sebastian, when I was fifteen, while I was taking a look at hi book Autobiografía de un Madrileño. It was a book dedicated to Madrid, with many photos of the streets and many portraits in which there was one photo in particular that boost me to become a photographer. That decision brought me to study in Madrid, where I have spent the last ten years. It is interesting to see that, in the end, my first book is also dedicated to Madrid as the one from Alberto. How did you decide studying photography and, in particular, interiors photography? It was very clear to me. I literally stole the reflex camera to my brother and I signed up to a night course of photography in San Sebastian, while doing the Bachelor’s degree. It captivate in such a way from the first day that when I finished I had no doubt. Becoming a photographer of interiors
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was a bit different. It was work that was taking me, step by step, into this field. Some of my early works were for a company in Barcelona that needed a lot of photos of architecture. I went there and took photos. I liked the fact of being able to capture something static and that gave me time to think about how I wanted to do it. I feel comfortable working without pressure and in the Interiors photography I have found that place. What do you love about interiors? They are a world in miniature. Regarding your ideas, are they the result of a previous study or are they spreading naturally? I tend to be very methodical when it comes to work. Before shooting a space I have previously visited it so I’m going with a clear idea of which is the aim. Once you are working, new ideas arise or you modify the ones you had and I think it is enriching to a save something to improvisation and to the ideas that arise while you are working, as it refresh what you’re doing and often improve the initial idea.
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And now the million-dollar question: are photographers born or the skills are acquired? I think that there is a very important part of the vocational factor, at least in my case. But I always say that you learn doing photos making photos. What are you looking for when taking photos of a space? What does pushes you to capture it? I have followed different criteria when selecting spaces that would form part of the book. The common thread has always been the colour, I was looking for spaces full of colour because I believe that that kind of spaces better represents the character of the city of Madrid: fun, cheerful, social... From this starting point, I searched for different types of spaces: on the one hand, I was searching for public repre-
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sentative spaces of Madrid such as the Filmoteca Española (the Spanish film library), the Casino of Madrid, the Fabuloso coffeshop or the Florida Park... But, on the other hand, I also wanted to find private spaces or projects of known creators, whose work was closely linked to the idea of colour. In this sense I have included the houses of Ouka Leele and of Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, the stores from Guille García - Hoz and Lorenzo Castillo or projects of architects such as Izaskun Chinchilla or Andrés Jaque. I think that for all of them the colour has been a hallmark in its proposals. And finally, it was very important to select spaces of anonymous people. These have been the most difficult to get but were essential. The idea was to present a multifaceted portrait of the city, not as a book about interior design, but about Interiors.
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Your book is a photography book. What makes it special? It is the first book that addresses this subject and makes it from a documentary point of view; I haven’t take part in any of the places that I have portrayed. Many of the areas that I’ve have photographed don’t exist anymore. This is something that has given a special value to the book while it was getting build because, as some places had disappear and you can no longer visit them, only these photographs get you to them. I know that many others will also disappear so, over time, the book may be a unique window to see how it was Madrid in the first years of the 21st century. What does a space need to have to 40 | SINGULARESMAG #7
make you think that it has a good interior design? It just has to make me want to stay. Do you have any project in mind? Which space that you haven’t yet worked in would you like to capture? Yes, I’m thinking in doing a collection of photos about trees. I would love to work on the house of Elsa Schiaparelli in Paris, the place where photographer Lee Miller lived in the United Kingdom or any of the projects of Kelly Wearstler in the United States. At least, can you give a tip for someone who is starting in architectural photography? They have to take lots and lots of photos.
If you want to buy the book Madrid Interiors you can do it at: madridinteriors.es
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Asier Rua arph.es
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A TURNAROUND
OF USE WE TRANSFORM A FLOWERPOT INTO A COLOURFUL CHILD STOOL.
MANU FACTUM It’s as simple as turn it over and knit a fluffy t-shirt yarn seat for what was once the basis of a simple flowerpot. This idea comes from Deiana Petrova, owner of the blog Ideas en polvo, who has in its original logbook fantastic ideas and several tutorials to give second chances to everyday objects.
PRODUCTION: DEIANA PETROVA, MARIA MARCET. PHOTOGRAPHY: DEIANA PETROVA.
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YOU WILL NEED 路 Flowerpot/Basket of about 30 cm high 路 T-shirt yarn of 1 or 2 colours 路 Size 12 Crochet hook 路 Scissors
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1 Introduce the hook through the hole from the previous row, from front to back.
3 Take the t-shirt yarn with the hook.
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2 Bring the t-shirt yarn through the hole creating a bowknot.
4 Pass it through both bows creating the knot.
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5 At every turn of we will expand the number of knots to complete the seat pan. On the side will keep the same number of nodes. (See pattern)
7 Cut strips of about 10 cm, of both colors.
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6 With the second t-shirt yarn colour, we will baste using the holes to create decorative designs to our liking.
8 Finally, we introduce for each hole a strip folded in half. We knot it to create the decorative fringe.
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Ideas en polvo Esp铆ritu Santo, 1 路 Valladolid ideasenpolvo.com
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WE MEET IN THE STUDIO OF...
LA FACTORÍA PLÁSTICA Step by step they have been (and are still)growing. Belén Cossío and Roberto Diz handmade manufacture mannequins, headboards, thre-dimensional letters and almost anything that requires customization and very good hands.
PRODUCTION: ELENA VALDÉS.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: JAVIER LEÓN.
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BelĂŠn and Roberto pose in their studio, where they give life to a thousand and one objects, from papier machĂŠ to auxiliary furniture passing through illuminated letters, etc.
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It is work, but it is also pleasure. It consumes hours, but generates rewards. The best of all of it is growing little by little, starting new projects and thrilling with each step they made. This may be the story of many entrepreneurs, and is also the story of Robert and Belén, the couple that is behind La Factoría PLástica, an idea which started shyly on a blog, gained popularity, led them to open an online shop, made them leave home to settle in a small shop, and that now leads them to a new study.
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Their studio spread out by coincidence (or maybe coincidence is just passing on all the tireless‌), and recently they have released it. Well, releasing is a way of speaking, because the studio is a former carpentry that closed its doors more than twenty years ago. The hands 56 | SINGULARESMAG #7
of BelĂŠn and Roberto, as they are very used to the sandpaper, paintbrushes and brushes, have worked on the large window and the doors of this open space that they found almost by chance, and luckily very near their home. They found a place that needed a lot
of care, the ground was nothing more than compacted soil with sawdust. The door was very old and the window blocked with woods that BelĂŠn, literally, had to kick to pull them off. And there was light. In fact, BelĂŠn tells us that she and Roberto looked to each other and GENIUS LOCI
they said to their selves that they could let that space escape: the height of the ceilings, the visible beams and the natural light they foresaw were perfect for them. The had to renew the soil, with a continuous cement pave, change the electrical supply... and start to furnish it. SINGULARESMAG #7 | 57
The place is a former industrial carpentry that came back to life thanks to the successful decorative touches of La Fa
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actoría Plástica.
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A moment came when I said to Robert: or your paintings or my mannequins so we change the local (Belén) GENIUS LOCI
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Respecting the soul of the space and taking advantage of its height, the natural light and the industrial past, they have found the materialization of La FactorĂa PlĂĄstica.
All the furniture was almost reused from other projects (such as the shelves that were at a restaurant in which design they collaborate) and it is, as it could not be otherwise, very functional. And it is not like they are now missing space but among their future projects
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they want continue expanding the catalogue, with new side tables, new headboards and new mannequins... as far as the frenetic pace of work they have allows them.
La Factoría Plástica lafactoriaplatica.com
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HOME SWEET
HOME
Antique furniture, stunning pieces of art and design pieces make up a very special mix is what we find in this stunning home.
PRODUCTION: BELÉN LÓPEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ÁLVARO LECO.
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It looks like a showroom but it is the family house, located in the town centre of Madrid, of Alberto L贸pez, young entrepreneur and soul of Icons Corner. An unhurried decoration with studied eclectic corners, full of life and movement. It is a curious refuge in which, one after another, we found spaces with a strong personality, a sample of
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the different tastes of their owners. Passionate about antiques and design, the result is a very rich fusion of styles, halfway between classicism and of today. Wood, metal, linens, furs, velvets ... a real sum of materials and textures with a common base of neutral placid tones and restrained touches of colour.
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Along with the exquisite interior that shines throughout the house, its distribution quite compartmentalized stands out. In contrast to the current trend that advocates open and airy spaces, here is a commitment to return to the past, with stays somewhat smaller but interconnected by a spectacular highceilinged hallway. The thread in the decoration is based on the colours but the romantic details are which, after all, stamps coquetry. It should be noted, without doubt, the large collection of pre-Columbian art of the owners, spectacular pieces treated with care and the mixing of these pieces with classic design pieces. ADVERTORIAL
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PRODUCTION: OLGA FERNĂ NDEZ.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: ANAIS GORDILS.
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Claudia Juncosa is the author of the blog Miss Sitius: Let’s find some beautiful place to lost. As an Interior Designer she has set out her style in her home, an old village house situated in the Maresme coast, at a few kilometres from Barcelona. It is a building of the 19th century that was part of a group of houses of the village church. Divided into three floors of 45 m2, it was complete refurbish as they only kept the facades. “We did balconies where it used to be small windows and we try to reproduce old items in the woodwork,” says Claudia. In the street floor we can find the kitchen, which is open to the dining room. It’s made with stainless steel furniture of Ikea that has been combined with a worktop in Carrara marble. The pavement of nearly all housing is natural oak with water varnish.
Barcelona tiles were recovered from the city works and th
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he gold-coloured frame is from a Sevillian store (Populart).
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The gold-coloured mirror that is on top of the metal bookcase is also inheritance. The picture of Elvis is a reminder o of Andy Warhol that Claudia did at her University and, at its side, Parentesi lamp from Flos.
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of an exhibition
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The antique vase decorated with flowers is also English and corals are of Azul Tierra.
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The dining room consists of a table from MDF and reupholstered chairs are family heritage. Coderch lamps complete the whole of this area. The new and the old are perfectly mixed up, combining the small Bookstore in iron and the antique mirror gold over it.
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After the kitchen, separated by a low height wall, is the lounge, in which predominantly dark shades. The sofa was made to measure and upholstered in dark grey and the armchair with headrest, upholstered in Velvet English, is family heritage.
Dishes with choral drawings are from Azul Tierra and ceramic cans with wood top from Habitat.
The pantry is lined with paper that overran the main bathroom. The bar and shelves are from Ikea. SINGULARES AT HOME
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The library of the room was a gap in the house from which they take the most.
Cabinet of iron with picture of family heritage.
In the main room, a white DM wheeled base works as a bed frame. Luminaires that are classics, as the Tolomeo lamp by Miss K, along with iron console, complete this room.
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The stripped wallpaper is from La Maison. The bathroom fittings are from Ritmonio and the toilets are from Flamin
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nia. The countertop is African honed black granite.
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... a window allowing you to have a bath at night looking at the stars and the moon. It’s priceless!
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The main bathroom is made of micro concrete and iroko wood. The countertop is African honed black granite. “It’s a very functional bathroom with a window allowing you to have a bath at night looking at the stars and the moon. It’s priceless!” as the owner says. SINGULARES AT HOME
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Large IKEA mirror. The metal Metro furniture is from Wikinsa.
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According to Claudia the dressing room is a provisional space. In it we see a clothes rack from Habitat, a RAR armchair by Vitra, and a bench that was found in the street. The old mirror was purchased at a fair in Cardedeu. SINGULARES AT HOME
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Tolomeo and TrĂpode lamps from Santa&Cole.
She works in the 20m2 study. Ikea sofas, and a fur carpet set the living area. The office area is made in white MDF lacquered. Breuer Cesca chairs are heritage and the sun mirror and the iron industrial table are antiques.
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The terrace is made of ipe wood. The workbench is coated in the same wooden. The table of white shades, like the Philippe Starck Toy chairs accompanying it, bring that Mediterranean air where the dwelling is located.
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The owner has made the cushions of flowers and the bags are from Zara home.
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“And the terrace, 25 m2, the icing on the cake. It’s the best of the house. It has the sea and fantastic mountain views. The sun passes throughout the day and the terrace also enjoy a great privacy, as it SINGULARES AT HOME
is the highest house in the area... “ Says the proud owner, and she continues: “all the pots, or almost all, are old. Some were already in the house, we found others or friends have given them to us” SINGULARESMAG #7 | 101
THE BEDROOM OF A
SUPERHERO Bruno is part of the Singulares team. He has a special ability to sense when we have a meeting, via Skype, for talking about the magazine. Hold by his mother, Natalia, graphical soul of these pages, it seems like he has something to say. When sleep overcomes him again, he rests in the room that his parents have decorated for him.
PRODUCTION: ELENA VALDÉS.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: NATALIA FERRERO.
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SĂşper Bruno by Tutticonfetti
What Bruno likes most is to fly. Since he was a baby of a few months, Miguel, his father, used to take him on wings around the house. Marta, of Tutticonfetti, has materialized that gesture in the illustration that opens this report. He is a superhero who lives in a house built in the first third of the 20th century, which has preserved hydraulic tile floors and high ceilings. His room overlooks a quiet street that flooded it with light. A few years before he was born, his mother was doing an Erasmus at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. There she bought some cus-
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hions attracted by its intense colour. Later, these cushions became the starting point for the decoration of the baby room. She completed it with a cot, with functional Ikea and Habitat furniture and toys and details, many of them Nordic-style inspired. When distributing the room, they made some space for the change table. Opposite, they placed an armchair for the breastfeeding period, a storage space for clothing that also acts as Bruno’s creative corner, and a fluffy carpet that defines the place to tell tales and invent
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Over the cot, a frames composition with pictures from when he left the hospital new-born, from Mother’s Day or the first day he saw the sea. The Ikea horse was painted white to match the rest of the room.
a thousand stories. Soon they will have to make room for a bed so perhaps the breastfeeding armchair will be located somewhere else in the house. Surely Miguel and Natalia will look out for a desk and will try to turn this bedroom into
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the perfect place for Bruno’s imagination to fly as the days of taking him on wings numbered. It is clear that superheroes change others’ lives (especially their parents ones).
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The stories are arranged in front, so that the covers, an not the backs, draw Bruno’s attention, Many of these tales are from Natalia’s childhood. Others were bought well before he was born.
The rich colour of the wall, between blue and green came from cushions bought in Germany. Over it we can see a felt garland that Natalia drew up for the first (and so far only) birthday of Bruno.
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A metal rod acts as a wardrobe under the shelf. Also visible, the shoes purchased atMenudos Zapatos.
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Bruno loves his Omm Design animal’s Matryoshkas. The storage unit consists of Ikea kitchen units to which a table top has been added on. They painted the inside of the doors with slate paint. The light garland is also from Ikea.
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On the inside outline of the double leaf door, a washi tape is used to measure the height of Bruno.
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A HOUSE
RENOVATED WITH A LOT OF ART We came to visit the house of Leticia Peironcely who has been working in the world of decoration for more than 15 years.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: BELÉN IMAZ.
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White furniture from Punt Mobles. Blue canvas by Carmen Pagés. Multi-coloured canvas by Laurina Paperina from the galley Travesía 4. Large sofa from Cassina and small osfa from Ka and International.
Leticia Peironcely together with his partner Luca Lapetra, are the owners of the Decolook study, where they perform from interior design projects for private clients to work of styling for companies or for some of the most important decoration magazines in our country, as well as set designs for television programmes, among many other projects. 122 | SINGULARESMAG #7
Leticia’s house is in Madrid and it’s a building of 1930, of 150 m2 approximately, that had not gone through any reform until she got there. Her idea was to keep the maximum of the original spirit of the house, only making the changes necessary to adapt it to the needs of a family with small children and renewing facilities.
Antique armchair reupholstered in suede. As coffee tables, they used Nelson benches by Vitra. On the wall there is a portfolio of lithographs by Gerardo Rueda, Jose Maria Iglesias and Luis Caruncho.
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The house had not gone through any reform since 1930. The idea was to keep the maximum of the original spirit of the house, only adapting it to the needs of a family with small children
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What Leticia liked most from the house the first time she saw it was the great height of the ceilings, as well as the original materials
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One of the actions that took place was the redistribution of spaces, as the house had five bedrooms but only a bathroom. They shot what was then the main bedroom to give it to the living room, as well as the partition wall separating the living room from the dining room, which ended-up in a living room with three spaces altogether. They kept the distribution of the rest of the bedrooms, among other things to conserve the floor and mouldings, and performed a bathroom for the children.
What Leticia liked most from the house the first time she saw it was the great height of the ceilings (3.20 m), as well as the original materials: the visible heaters, the hydraulic tiled floors in the living room and bedrooms, the yellow pine wooden flooring in the living room and the original wooden windows and shutters, so she decided to keep them.
Chaise longue from Le Corbusier. Dinning table from Di Padova. “Infantes” chairs designed by Paco Muñoz. Hipóstila bookcase from B.D. (designed by Óscar Tusquets and Lluis Clotet)
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“Diamond” chair by Harry Bertoia. Auction table.
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Wall-paper from Cole and Son, at Pepe Peñalver.
As for the decor, the large number of works of art hanging on the walls throughout the house stands out as well as the variety of furniture from different periods and styles, perfectly living together and giving a great personality to ensemble. The expert touch of the decorator that lives in the house is undeniable. SINGULARES AT HOME
The hydraulic tile hall was rather worn and several parts were missing. “I got in touch with the company Mosaics del Sur and they reproduced the exact drawing and manufactured the remaining parts. Once completed the drawing, I hand paint-stripped and varnished it to recover the original colour,” Leticia says. SINGULARESMAG #7 | 129
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The heating pipes, that they decided to keep, were giving a new coat of silvercoloured paint. Wood flooring, “incredibly well preserved considering the age of the house, only needed a refinishing”, says the owner. The windows, originally in varnished wood, were painted in vanilla colour but they decided to paint them in white to give more light to the house.
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Drawings from Máximo González, at the gallery Travesía 4.
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Sink from Cosmic. Mirror from Ikea.
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Beds from Ikea. Ancient map from La Europea. “Basel” chair by Jasper Morrison for Vitra.
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A SCANDINAVIAN
OASIS IN THE HEART OF IDAHO We visit the home of blogger Jennifer Hagler, a decorative “happy accident” in white and black, very different from the American aesthetics to which we are accustomed.
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Jennifer Hagler is one of the most international renowned (and well-known) decoration blogger, with very personal and identifiable symbols of identity that spring directly from the clear and simple lines of Scandinavian design, which also gives great expressiveness. Her blog is called “A Merry Mishap” and actually defines very well what her style (and her home style) means in the 136 | SINGULARESMAG #7
United States, which is where Jennifer lives. Her styling, the decoration of her home, the design that she likes and even her way of dressing, are a “happy accident” (or a Merry Mishap) that took place in the heart of American aesthetics very different to the ones we are used to see in decoration publications and blogs of that country or in the television shows in which we see the American houses.
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Most of these pieces come from Finland, Sweden and Denmark and many of them are icons of design in those countries
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Several views of the dinning room where the industrial inspired lam
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mp and the DSR Plastic Chair from the Eames.
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And the most palpable sign of what we say is the house in which she resides, from four years ago, Jennifer and her husband, Jeremiah, along with the small Israel, aged three. The house is on the outskirts of Boise, the capital of the State of Idaho; surrounded by green fields just a few minutes drive from the city centre.
simplicity and clean lines that characterize the more orthodox Scandinavian style. The black and white (with small concessions to the light wood tones) dominates both in furnishings and textiles and even in not very numerous (but significant) decorative objects. Most of these pieces come from Finland, Sweden and Denmark and many of them are icons of design in those countries.
As we said before, the guidelines that define the style of the house are the
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The black and white dominates both in furnishings and textiles and even in not very numerous decorative objects
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The white-black binomial is only interrupted by the brief chromatic brushstrokes that the backs of books or magazines give.
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Simplicity reigns, even in a more pronounced manner if possible, in the master bedroom.
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The graphic elements (letters, numb
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bers) are the more recurrent leitmotif in the pictures that adorn the house.
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Jennifer works basically at home, that is why one of the most important places of the house (and where she spends most of the time) is her workspace. In there she writes her posts and processes her photographs (though she points out that she is a beginner in this field, the images illustrating this article show otherwise), she also design jewellery for her own label, “AMM Jewelry”, or manages which is her most immediate project, along with her husband, an
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online store, “Kollekt”, in which the couple wants to make more accessible the Scandinavian design they love to the American public. We will have to keep an eye to all these upcoming projects from Jennifer, a mind as creative as personal that aspires to make of this “happy accident” a standard to her life.
A wide blackboard, where Jennifer let loose to his numerous ideas, presides over the working area of the blogger. Again, the Plastic Chair, this time in black, from the Eames.
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