LUCE HOUSE
The project is a major refurbisment of an apartment in Pamplona, carried out with great care and detail. The house is designed in such a way that all the rooms function as a single space generated around a central piece. This piece, conceived as a large marble cube, allows the living room and kitchen to be placed on one side of the house; and a large bedroom to be placed in the other side.
Therefore, the two protagonists of the space; the piece of marble and the natural light, dialogue perfectly. The first, in light tones, reflects the second, multiplying its effect throughout the home. The vertical and gray veins of the macael marble connect in turn with the gray tones of the floor, made in large pieces of porcelain stoneware. The third material that completes the space is wood: the bookshelves and the access door make up a second piece, in maple wood, whose texture contrasts with the marble; and brings warmth to the living area. Finally, two primary colors are also part of the environment. Yellow tints the light that enters though one of the living room windows, and blue does the same in the bedroom.
The bathroom is the space that is housed in the aforementioned marble cube. With the intention of maintaining the qualities of this material -the reflections and shine- inside, the interior walls and partitions are made of translucent glass. Also the access door. In this way, natural light penetrates into the bathroom and is subtly reflected on all its walls.
The furniture is a fundamental part in the design of the project, since it is selected during the design of the house itself, and seeks to enhance the qualities of the environment. In this way, the kitchen bench - it is the classical Bulthaup System 20 - provides great lightness with its structure in steel and aluminum. The table, designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, brings elegance thanks to the noble rosewood of the top and the almost timeless shapes of its legs. The lightweight Series 7 chairs, by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen, marry perfectly with this table.
And this play of materials, finally, is completed with the natural chocolate-colored leather and the cherry wood in the two “Chaise Longes”. Indeed, the living room is made up of the famous armchairs by Charles and Ray Eames, and the Diamond Chair by Henry Bertoia for Knoll. The latter provides the final note of color, with the emerald green of its upholstery.
All the furniture has been selected together with the showroom Sagaseta, and the project has been done in collaboration with the architect Sara Gainza Sagaseta.
