THE ACT OF SHARING

MATERIALITY
&
ABSTRACTION

AROMA
TERROSO

PERFECT EMPINESS

WHAT THE HEART DECIDES

OF CONCRETE
AND SKIN

Her blissful relationship with Carvajal House was the sort of love story where the protagonists were fated to meet. Only in this case, the lovers are made of concrete and skin.

A mural is an overlapping of two languages: architecture and painting. I don't want to resolve the idea of continuity but to question all the conflicts about the perception of the human eye versus the scale of the place or its context.

AN ISLAND
WITHIN
AN ISLAND

As our conversation progresses, I realise that it would be easier to list the people who have not visited this extraordinary place.

Imagine the most remote place in the world, where civilisation has barely gained a foothold and where climatic conditions are extreme. The landscape is one of arid steppes, meadows and deserts, but also of ice-bound fjords and temperate rainforests.

CHILLIDA LEKU

“The work for me is both answer and question … It’s not about ‘representing’ in a less perfect and even personal way what is apparent, what is known to all, but of penetrating, ‘presenting’ and bringing light where there was darkness,” Eduard Chillida wrote in one of the many notes he left undated and unordered in his study.

Benjamin’s art is not only perceived but is also thought-provoking. As the first notes emerge from the piano, I think of him as an island, wild and small, floating proudly, free and alone near a densely populated archipelago.

BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

LIVING IN.
MASTERPIECES OF RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

Truly brilliant design projects cry out to be inhabited, and exhibit the timeless appeal that is synonymous with the word 'home'.

MENDI ARGIA

Mendi Argia, or “Illuminated Mountain” as its Basque name, conveys the many sensations aroused by this house on the hill.

FERNANDO CARUNCHO

ICELAND

JOANA
BIARNÉS

You can tell from her undeniable charisma, amazing vitality, courage and brilliant sense of humour how she managed to hold her own among her male peers and how -despite ups and downs- she’s never lost her pugnaciously feisty spirit.

SOLO OFFICE

With only the basic elements of a home – and no more – its main ornament is its setting, which sweeps us away with its breathtaking magnificence.