Current Obsessions: Weekend Lull
by Remodelista Team
Ahead this weekend: a St. Tropez exhibit, meandering paths through spring’s greenery, and a smart hack for a wheel-away TV. Read on:
Above: Weekend plans, courtesy of A Historic House in Béziers by Doux Août and Architect Maria Masgård. Photography by Doux Août of La Maison B.
- Now on view online and in locations coast to coast: Diane Keaton: Architecture of an Icon.
- Ooh, a green tag sale at a favorite gallery in Maine, going on June 5 and 6.
- And going on this weekend: BDDW’s scratch and dent auction.
- Julie’s eyeing Rachel Chudley Colour: a new bespoke paint co. by Donald Kaufman’s daughter in law.
- “Tested at Afternoon Light: a rolling desk chair designed by Hans Wegner that was never produced—until now. It’s newly out from Carl Hansen,” reports Margot.
- Admiring this new rug collection from Swedish furniture maker Massproductions.
- Would you try this hack for the TV? It’s a lookalike for a great design we saw last year in Copenhagen.
- Love, love, love the looks of “Souvenirs d’Enfance” (“Memories of Childhood”), an exhibit in a house in St. Tropez; info here.
- Annie’s in the market for an outdoor table and came across this wildly discounted option.
- Spotted: ramp butter at the Milkweed Inn, a funky little assemblage of places to stay in Michigan’s UP (hat tip: Margot).
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Both Annie and Fan are admiring this dreamy meandering boardwalk by Terremoto.
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Can’t believe these are wood pavers!
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A good reminder that composting doesn’t have to be complicated.
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Need summer outdoor planter inspo? Here you go.
- And 9 finds for a go-anywhere-and-everywhere summer, courtesy of the R/G editors.
’70s Redux: A Barcelona Apartment Finds Its Groove
by Fan Winston
The ’70s look has re-infiltrated the design world, and we’re not always onboard with it. This project, though, by Barcelona-based Conti Cert successfully (and subtly) channels the era by giving it a minimalist twist.
It helped that Andrea Conti and Isa Cert, the principal architects, essentially had a blank canvas to work with. The apartment, on the fifth floor of a building from the 1970s, had been remodeled, again and again, to within an inch of its life, so they opted to remove everything and start from scratch. “All the original layers were in a really bad state under the renovation layers,” they explain. The client, a young hospitality entrepreneur with whom they’d collaborated before, also gave them “complete creative freedom; his only wish was to have three sizable bedrooms and a big open space for day use.”
Left blissfully alone to do their thing, the designers went to work, creating a new layout and thoughtfully adding in the high points of ’70s interior style: earthy tones, sink-in seating, metallic surfaces, and paneled wood. Let’s take a tour.
Photography by Claudia Mauriño, courtesy of Conti Cert.
Above: “The freedom that the client gave us was translated into a beautiful new layout. It consists of 200 square meters distributed in a large common living-dining-kitchen area, and then those three large bedrooms that the owner requested.” The custom iroko wood table is by Max Enrich, chairs by Rexite, shelves by BD Barcelona, and floor lamp by Ingo Maurer.
Above: An eat-in kitchen is enclosed by a steel and glass wall, a solution that allows for both separation and open flow.
Above: A wood-paneled wall and ceiling are warm counterpoints to the metal surfaces. The glass lamp on the counter is by designer Jaume Ramírez.
Above: Open to the dining area is the living room, awash in neutral colors except for the arresting artwork by the Ritsch Sisters. Both the safari chairs and the corduroy Togo chair are vintage. (See: Trend Alert: The 1970s Togo Lounge is Today’s Flop-Down Chair of Choice.) The daybed is custom.
Above: Floor-to-ceiling drapery separates the living room from the TV room.
Above: The extra-large sofa and blue wool rug are both custom. The aluminum coffee table is by Frama.
Above: In the bedroom, simplicity reigns. A ledge-cum-headboard also serves as storage space. The step nightstand is by Max Enrich. The striped bedding is by Tekla.
Above: “We used fabric curtains in the bedrooms, which combined with the wall-to-wall carpet floors helped us create these little cocoon-style rooms that we were looking for.”
For more projects by Conti Cert, see:
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