Vilablanch restores and revamps Barcelona’s Casa Burés

Inside design studio Vilablanch chosen “silent” up to date furnishings to deck out this Barcelona house block, conserving the deal with the constructing’s opulent authentic options.

Casa Burés – which is longlisted within the house inside class of this 12 months’s Dezeen Awards – has been designed by Vilablanch to function a number of contemporary fixtures and furnishings that “do not compete with or imitate the unique ones”.

The studio has refurbished all 26 flats within the constructing, starting from huge dwelling quarters with frescoed ceilings, to extra pared again, white-walled flats.

“We opted for a chic and complicated inside design that recovers and enhances the dear ornamental parts which can be a part of the historical past of modernism,” defined the apply, which is lead by Elina Vilá and Agnès Blanch.

“They’re accompanied with parts which can be equally refined, however serene, much less ornate and silent.”

The six-floor constructing was erected firstly of the 20th century by Spanish architect Francesc Berenguer i Mestres and takes its title from its first proprietor, Francesc Burés – a rich businessman who owned a number of textile corporations.

Regardless of gaining listed standing in 1979, over time Casa Burés had been vandalised and fallen right into a state of disrepair.

Vilablanch due to this fact labored alongside regionally primarily based agency TDB Arquitectura to utterly restore present options and make it practical sufficient to go well with the “comforts of present life”.

One ground now accommodates a pair of “palatial” flats that are supposed to be harking back to Burés’ previous living-quarters. Every one sprawls throughout 500 square-metres and options ornate moulded ceilings and mosaic flooring.

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Rooms are related by prolonged corridors with stained-glass home windows or frescoed rotundas with floor-to-ceiling gilded panelling.

Furnishings come within the type of minimal white sectional-sofas and jewel-tone velvet armchairs, whereas stainless-steel cabinetry has been put in within the kitchens.

The bottom degree, which Burés as soon as used as a manufacturing house for textiles, has been transformed into three loft-style flats with “sturdy industrial persona”.

Right here, open-plan eating and sitting areas are interrupted by iron columns. Concrete flooring and exposed-brick surfaces run all through, coupled with black-framed glass partitions partitions.

5 penthouse flats and 16 flats have been created all through the remainder of the constructing, full with less complicated white-painted partitions and oakwood flooring.

Barcelona properties are sometimes host to an abundance of historic decor particulars that architects and inside designers are eager to maintain.

Nook Architects saved a 40-year-old mural and patterned ground tiles in its overhaul of a flat within the metropolis’s Gothic quarter, whereas Valentí Albareda preserved crumbling brick partitions in its design of a triplex house within the Sant Antoni neighbourhood.