Designed by CASAdesign Interior, the stand-out features of this space are the well-placed artwork and the lighting. The floor to ceiling windows allow ample natural light, but when the stars come out the modern light fixtures are perfectly placed to bring attention to the beautiful décor and art throughout this space.

The fixtures highlight the details in each of the rooms, making the design come alive. Every room has a story to tell and an inviting call. Pops of color and added plants warm up the design and break up the neutral color scheme. The featured art wall adds character and makes for one fascinating conversation piece. The show-stopping marble floors and accent wall make the space feel glamorous, yet the furnishings make you feel at home. The home perfectly showcases a contemporary space with a warm, inviting design. 

You find everything about the proverbial loft here: industrial vibe, high ceilings, raw exposed brick walls. The browns and oranges are wonderfully coordinated, the place oozes warmth and friendliness.

Look out for the quirky details – the mixed geometric-patterned cement-tiles that had been coming back for the last year, as well as the painted (and hopefully sealed) bricks in the bathroom.

Kitchen cabinets in stainless steel and smoked glass have steel handles and internal drawers with dividers for different cutlery, dishes, etc door and groceries. The wardrobe has interior lighting, leather hangers, drawers colorless glass, cushioning and hidden drawers for jewelry. The bed is covered in white leather with a High Gloss Marine headboard.

The bench-work table, topped in High Gloss Ebony, works as a room divider and comes with leather handles and small niches for books.

This fantastic live-in garage is the proof that passion can shape the spaces we live in. Designed for a young man whose Maserati was the object of his passion, this surprising garage/residence can be found in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Composed of layers of translucent and transparent separators, this residential space imagined by architect Brunete Fraccaroli is where the owner connects with his passion and surrounding nature. Spreading over 120 square meters, the modern garage is intended to link the owner and his car in the most visible way – the Maserati occupies an important space right in the living room. This versatile space includes the social area, a dining space, and office corner, a home theater and even a washing place. Meeting in-between dark walls and white ceilings, the carefully chosen furniture items compose an up-to-date design perfectly adapted for this special residential project.

Looking at the house from the street, the ground level is hidden to the eyes. The ground falls abruptly to reveal another platform, 6 m below. This is where the main living spaces are situated. Because of the inhabitantâ€s need to incorporate spaces for an office, the residence was divided into living spaces and business accommodations.

The street level incorporates two different areas, connected by a steel bridge: one that lays on the ground and one that lays on top of the lower levels of the building, acting like a roof terrace. Architects explain how the lower part of the house was created to suit the inhabitantâ€s needs:

The house is divided into two levels, both below the street level. Its spaces are integrated with the woods, valley, gardens, and pool located at the ground level. The house incorporates the outside nature indoors: a sliding glass door opens the living room into the terrace, creating one large space. The bedroom and the patios can also be integrated at the lower level.

The concrete and glass construction was designed based on the siteâ€s geography and landscape, so take a look at the pictures to understand the residenceâ€s beauty and modern equlibrium.

Juan Pablo Rosenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1976 and arrives in Sao Paulo in six years. Since then he lives in the area of Higienópolis, the epicenter of modernism: between the building Prudencia Rino Levi (1944) and signed Louveira Vilanova Artigas (1946), teachers of the school that trained the brutalist Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Rosenberg looks around and sees nothing but that the buildings of prized architect Artacho Jurado. First reviled and then risen icon of eclecticism and ornamentation. Pizzi concrete slabs, carvings, stucco.

Yes, I admit that Higienópolis prompted me to study architecture, it was a nice boost. As a teenager I watched these buildings and I imagined it would be like to live inside a dream. In particular, Cinderela, of Jurado, pure fifties,

– says Rosenberg. So he bought his own home in that building. After graduating in architecture, and flying between Milan and Vera Cruz, Mexico, Pablo returns to Sao Paulo and starts his search.

The Cinderela building was selling the caretaker’s apartment. Seventy square meters on the ground floor, divided into a living room, a pair of small bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen, with only two windows.

The apartment was dark and badly divided. Thick walls, high ceilings and only 2 meters and 80 headroom

says Pablo. There is a but, though. During the inspection, Rosenberg looks up from the front door that opens onto the lobby of the building and notices a difference in heights: it’s four meters. “I thought that since both spaces are on the ground floor there is something hidden. At that moment I knew I had to buy this flat and radical remodel it. ”
It took two months to demolish all the partition walls, ceilings and structures.

He threw out 90 cubic meters of solid brick and stucco. The only original structures that remained are the water and gas pipes left visible, and the two support columns. Out of this, Pablo has created an open space of 70 square meters, 5 meters wide and 4 meters high. He gave the loft plenty of natural light and ventilation. Enlarged the kitchen window to become wall of glass and a skylight over the inner courtyard of the building.

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One toilet room was demolished. For the rest, as simple as it gets: living and sleeping areas are divides with white fabric (‘practically it is always open’). White fabric is also used for the shower set inside a tub placed in the middle of the bedroom. The bed is also mobile with a cast iron frame with wheels of a trolley attached. Pablo moves it every time he receives friends at home and it becomes a huge sofa.

The wooden ladder left in the loft after the renovations changed roles as become hanger. Other eclectic pieces of furniture from the seventies – purple armchairs by Cassina and the Eames Lounge Chair, the anonymous black leather sofa, the table in black and white painted glass from Brazilian designer Jacqueline Terpins – and a door was saved from demolition.

That the contemporary style of the home is evident, however it keeps the original style and charm of the building intact as well.

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This is Oscar Niemeyerâ€s Refurbishment, a masterpiece brought to life by the talented creators Felipe Hess and Renata Pedrosa. The building was originally designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and is located in Sao Paulo.

This project entailed the conversion of an original devised three bedroom interior into an open space contemporary loft. A loft with fluid circulation and grand social spaces with no permanent partitions. In order to achieve this openness the architects cleverly divided the private from the social spaces by the introduction of a central block dividing the two activities. Facing the private areas the block contains linen storage and closets, and on the other side looking at the social area it hosts shelving with memorabilia, a built in concrete bench and the absolute naked concrete kitchen.

The overall design consists of what we call absolute sexiness. Raw exposed distressed concrete, exposed piping, stark white walls and ceiling protruding symmetry. In combination with these finishes lies the perfect merge with the introduction of wide floor boards and wooden shelving that introduce warmth and sensuality. This controlled order creates an interior which is the epitome of modern loft living with the ambience of contemporary living.

Everywhere within the interior there is a surprise element. A character that is dancing around the rigid concrete structure flirting with it. These surprise elements are present by the fun memorabilia on the shelves, by the selective bright coloured furniture & fixture pieces, by the free standing tub in the glazed partition, looking out to the social space. This is the true subtle line between strictly private and teasingly private. To our eyes this interior is full of quirks and imbalances for enthusiastic characters. It is a residence where you initially think that there can be strict perimeters between my entertaining and my solitude. However solitude is meant to be broken, and in this project it can be achieved through cleverness and discretion.

Throughout the interiors concrete is also introduced as solid fixed furniture unit. This material escapes the structural scope and becomes part of the usable everyday furniture units. In the kitchen the pure concrete island created by Onofre also protrudes to create a breakfast table. This in turn acts as a kitchen perimeter and in line with the white ceiling it creates a clear and clever division. This plaster white ceiling was introduced in the space to bring warmthness and balance.

Photos by Fran Parente

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