LA RICARDA by WEEKEND MAX MARA
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Copywriting para Weekend Max Mara en colaboración con Openhouse Studio.
Publicado en inglés.
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Creative direction and Production by Mariluz Vidal for Openhouse Studio
Photo by Salva López - salvalopez.com/
Art direction by Clara Quintana Studio - @claraquintanastudio
Film by Hector Ferreño - vimeo.com/hectorferrenoworks
Music Zaldikatu#3 by MOXAL
Model Okkie Reijnders from Blow Models
Hair & Make up by Jorge Zunica from Kastel Management - @lucifrede
Styling by Yasmina Benabdelkrim yasminabenabdelkrim.com
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A HYMN TO FREEDOM
In this house, which played host to huge concerts in the 50s, 60s and 70s, today you can hear only birdsong. Casa Gomis is also known as La Ricarda, a reference to the lagoon that sits in front of it. More than three centuries old, this aquifer area is one of the last untouched open spaces in the Delta del Llobregat.
Surrounded by a pine forest facing the sea, this plot was inherited by Inés Bertran who, together with her husband Ricardo Gomis and the architect Antonio Bonet, built a work of rationalist art that is now considered a gem of contemporary architecture.
The roof’s vaulting is arranged in perfect balance with the waving tops of the surrounding pine trees and its iconic shapes skim over the landscape. The varied colors of the glass and ceramics in the gallery is the liveliest element of the design; together with the hues used for the interior, they are reminiscent of the Weekend Max Mara Bon Chic collection's palette. An authentically British style designed over yarn-dyed fabrics and check patterns, where lace detailing shirts and balloon sleeves demonstrate a new-found penchant for bon chic and bon genre clothing.
“The Gomis Bertrands’ passion for music and experimental art led them to hold performances, concerts and screenings at home. The living room was the heart of the house, and there, jazz music was always playing.”
The Gomis Bertrands' passion for music and experimental art led them to hold performances, concerts and screenings at home. The living room was the heart of the house, and there, jazz music was always playing. Over time, especially during the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Casa Gomis became a refuge for Catalan intellectuals, a hymn to freedom that the blackbirds now sing while they flit over the house, flying as their pass from the river by La Ricarda.
