The bipolar house

The owners of this apartment are a Dutch couple with soul. Millennial. And perhaps, for this reason, they've had few problems giving the team Egue and Seta “Manga ancha” to combine the most opposite styles, as long as the original space and the ultimate vocation of the rooms so require. Only in this way can this eclectic house be understood, which rises on original and recovered hydraulic mosaic floors, rooms with an otherwise entirely contemporary design; a home that, under its traditional Catalan wooden beams and vaults, accommodates pieces of furniture of extreme trend and modernity; an apartment that, throughout its typical layout of the Barcelona Eixample, entirely reverses the traditional organization of the home to include rooms that have more to do with very current ways of living, working, and sharing.

In the very center of the home, though not its darkest or innermost part, lies the couple's en-suite bedroom. An imposing room, flanked by two generous light wells, accessed through two balcony doors that can be opened as soon as we get out of bed. A bed that looks, without excessive modesty, onto the entrance hall through an internal garden and rests against a very dark, theatrical wall where any lighting and decoration stands out.

A purely stage-like room opening onto a dressing room and bathroom bathroom always doubles where you can see two Toulouse sinks, which combine the high contrast of white cladding, dark grout, and black trim with large reflections from mirrors and textured glass.

Special mention is deserved by the room bathroom guest bathroom that, without giving up its healthcare vocation, stands out for its clear desire to entertain. A guest bathroom where is present the Magdalena sink and a semicircular bathtub is hidden behind a suggestive set of palm fronds and Venetian blinds that allow natural light to flow in from the foyer, while also allowing silhouettes to be glimpsed from the outside.

Photo: VICUÑA PHOTO