Showing posts with label Mexico City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico City. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

BEAUTY: Interiors--wrinkleMX in Mexico City

Designers Astrid and Eddy Sykes of wrinkleMX created an incredible apartment for a client in Mexico City. This fascinating home feels like aliens examined how humans live and created a space to mimic that, but of course seen through their own vernacular. The result is a space that feels at once comfortingly familiar and beautifully strange.

The generally dark spaces utilize color in a very special way, with extremely saturated hues like the penetrating purple in the main entry/library that wraps into a built in bookcase with broken Gothic arches at the top. Instead of books, the unit holds a collection of oddly shaped objects and forms.

The lounge area's mid-century modern shelving units feel familiar but they are hovering in front of a striated wallpaper that has an almost lenticular effect. Channel tufted sofas recall the Terrazza sofa by de Sede.

The most jaw-dropping part of this whole house has to be the kitchen. The island looks like a Neolithic stone altar, composed of jigsaw puzzle pieces of Tikal green marble from Guatemala. The top features an integrated relief map of a mountain range carved right from the marble which separates the cook top from the eating area! Faceted brass panels cover the refrigerator and storage. The same material continues up onto the ceiling in the form of coffered sections. Double sinks and counter all carved from a rough, unfilled travertine span the depth of the kitchen.

The centerpiece of the dining room is the light over the table. Instead of a traditional hanging fixture, the designers created a honeycomb-like configuration of mouth-blown glass in various shades of pink, suspended in hexagonal brass frames. Phenomenal.

A high-patterned blue and gold quartzite and a Chinoiserie wallpaper with peacocks are highlighted by brass fixtures and cabinetry in the primary bathroom. And each bedroom is wrapped in a cocoon of dense wallpaper...I especially love how the antique William Morris paper in the guest room ends up looking otherworldly!


Photos from Architectural Digest:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-a-mexico-city-apartment-transformed-into-a-marvel-of-avant-garde-design

https://www.wrinklemx.com/

Friday, November 2, 2018

Día de los Muertos, Mexico City, October 27, 2018

Mexico City held its annual Día de los Muertos parade and celebration, launched in 2016, and inspired by a similar parade set in the city in the James Bond film "Spectre." Thousands attended this year's event which was themed around migration. The city's government dedicated the parade to migrants who have lost their lives in transit, at a time when thousands from across Central America are currently travelling in a caravan through the country. One part of the parade had people carrying parts of a border wall, which said (in Spanish): "On this side there is also a dream."

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

BEAUTY: Interior--Barberia Royal in Mexico City

ROW Studio, under the direction of Álvaro Hernández Felix, Nadia Hernández Felix and Alfonso Maldonado Ochoa, just created a fantastic barber chop in Mexico City called Barberia Royal.

The description of the space on their blog:
"The lower half of the space relates in colors and materials to the long standing heritage of traditional barbershops including a black and white hexagonal tiles floor with a flower pattern and the Royal name greeting all the patrons at the entrance.

In contrast the ceiling is shaped with an intricate faceted surface that adapts to the changing heights of the space and the structural elements of the building finished with a laser-cut golden anodized aluminum reflective surface that mirrors the plan view of the shop and sharpens the edges of the volume creating a point of interest for the clients as they lay back on the service chairs.

The store plan is distributed into two equally important zones: the waiting area with a fully stocked courtesy bar, very comfortable leathered stools and sofas, shelves with exhibition of the best grooming products for sale that share the space with a real life buffalo head and a fully restored vintage Triumph motorcycle as decorative highlights; the service area is furnished with original chairs from the 1950s upholstered in mustard yellow each facing a large scale beveled mirror with a rounded gilded frame with golden heads of a lion, a wolf, a stag, a zebra, an elephant and a moose fixed onto its surfaces."


http://rowarch.com/