Estate & Design

Interiors

Interior architecture, furniture, light and material, treated with the seriousness they deserve.

The street facade of Casa Barragan in Tacubaya, Mexico City, with its coloured upper volumes

Interiors

Casa Barragan: Emotional Architecture in Tacubaya

Luis Barragan's 1948 house and studio in Mexico City hides chromatic, light-washed interiors behind a plain street facade. It won him the Pritzker and UNESCO listing.

The Olivetti showroom, Venice, Carlo Scarpa's floating stone staircase seen from above

Interiors

The Olivetti Showroom: Carlo Scarpa's Venetian Interior

In a room only four metres high beneath the Procuratie Vecchie, Carlo Scarpa composed one of the great interiors of the twentieth century: a staircase of Aurisina stone, a floor of Murano glass, and brass against the salt air.