Marqués del Duero

The decorator wanted the light from the living-dining room, the only room that faces the street, to bathe the rest. To achieve this, he demolished partitions and visually joined it through columns with the entrance, creating a small living room with a fireplace. In this way, it is not a typical passage hall but a habitable space.
The spaces in the home are fluid and open-plan so that the owners' collection, which includes lights, paintings, sculptures and, above all, a lot of large-format photography, can breathe. The owners were looking for contemporary, new artists with a pop edge, such as Tracey Emin's neon, and they are also lovers of kinetic art, hence Umberto Ciceri's dancer.
As for the décor, something soft and simple was developed, with furniture from Vitra, Knoll and mostly my own midcentury designs. De la Torre is a fan of Le Corbusier, Bauhaus and straight lines, and likes to add warmth with linens and plain velvets, as with the wooden-legged tufted sofa in the living room. The jewel in the crown is the dining table, which he made from a single piece of iron. A white chromatic palette stained with green was used, as the private areas were quite dark, and noble materials such as oak flooring and marble floors in the bathrooms and kitchen.