Folding white latticework enlivens moody São Paulo house by NJ+

A stark white latticework quantity conceals kitchen cupboards and a toilet on this São Paulo house, designed by native structure studio NJ+.

Known as Dendê Duratex Home, the 155-square-metre studio house is laid out as an open-plan L-shaped house. It contains a bed room at one finish and a lounge on the different with a kitchen in between.

Off the sitting space is a bigger front room, positioned subsequent to a lush backyard.

A free-standing lattice quantity acts as a divider between totally different the kitchen and bed room, and accommodates the kitchen cabinetry in addition to a toilet.

NJ+ studio, led by Nildo José, designed the Dendê Duratex Home with Brazilian manufacturing firm Duratex for Casacor, an inside design pageant in São Paulo.

José created the one-bedroom house across the pageant’s theme, Planet Dwelling. He took many cues from the Brazilian state Bahia, the place he grew up.

Amongst these particulars is darkish wooden panelling that references Bahia’s Jacaranda timber. Partitions coated in burnt cement coating in a contrasting pale color take cues the sunshine and easy structure of its seaside homes.

“Each element displays a particular bond along with his homeland in a sober approach, wealthy in artwork, bossa nova and poetry,” stated NJ+ studio in a undertaking description.

Dendê, in title of the undertaking, can be a reference to a fruit from a palm tree native to West of Africa that’s generally in northeast Brazilian delicacies, together with Bahia.

The house’s interiors comprise a monochrome palette of gray stone flooring, a slatted darkish wooden wall that arches to kind the ceiling, and quite a few brilliant white furnishings.

Double-height glass partitions line all three of the rooms, and usher in loads of pure gentle.

On the entrance is a marble slab of rock salt with a 15-metre lengthy strip of LED gentle beneath, which “remembers Bahian mysticism in a inventive and delicate approach”. One other rock-like design runs alongside the underside of the ground.

“Attempting to convey a sublime and, on the similar time, rustic essence, Nildo José conceived a home of fresh structure, considerable in straight traces, with punctual curves that make analogy to the Recôncavo of Bahia, a concave-shaped space of land round water within the area of Baía de Todos os Santos, or All Saints’ Bay,” the studio added.

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5 lengthy bookshelves cowl one wall and have lots of of clear glass bottles stuffed with Bahia’s sand as an “analogy to the colonial previous of the Recôncavo in a delicate approach”.  A white ladder is rested up towards them, whereas a sculpture of a person is by Giovani Caramello is on the alternative finish.

Dendê Duratex Home options a lot of furnishings by Brazilian architects and designers, together with a Bowl chair by modernist Lina Bo Bardi, an armchair by Jorge Zalszupin, and one other seat by Zanine Caldas.

Within the kitchen close by are additionally a espresso desk and chairs by Zalszupin, in addition to an armchair within the bed room.

The bed room additionally includes a white stool by Sergio Rodrigues, and a white chair by Marcenaria Baraúna and a custom-made wavy white headboard by NJ+.

The number of items add kind and texture to the house, but when paired collectively create a cohesive and minimalist house.

“The home conjures up a dreamlike nature by means of the abundance of pure textures, the place the composition and mixture of distinct parts impart a harmonious essence,” stated NJ+ studio.

Additionally in the lounge is a settee, a Construflama hanging white fire, rustic stones as espresso tables by Gustavo Neves executed by Mont Blanc and a two-arm wall lamp by French industrial designer Serge Mouille.

Cylindrical white stools within the kitchen are by Italian studio Decoma Design.

Ending the house are custom-made white Deca taps, Caesarstone counters, Dimlux wall lamps and ceramic tiles by Cerâmica Atlas.

Different flats in São Paulo embrace a renovated modernist flat by Saito Arquitetos and an abode by Pascali Semerdjian with a curved bookshelf.

Pictures is by Denilson Machado of MCA Estúdio.