The French doors on the front of the house and the balcony are also new additions.Įxplains Pablo of the courtyard plantings: “By having tall bamboo along the sides we created a little oasis and an optical illusion: the green wall makes the space look and feel more intimate and at the same time bigger, because it hides the fence. Above: Located in the the village of La Losa, near the Riofrío Palace, the Spanish royal family’s hunting retreat, the townhouse came with a postage stamp-size courtyard that the designers made the most of: in addition to a dining area, they managed to fit in a plunge pool-with elbow room. Photography by Pablo Zamora, courtesy of Casa Josephine Studio. Here are a dozen design lessons to be gleaned from their refined transformation of 1,100 square feet. Wanting to transform the quarters into a sophisticated, well composed retreat-while entirely avoiding all rustic cliches-Iñigo and Pablo deployed a design language of checks, grids, and circles. The 1920s two-story townhouse had a cramped and neglected interior that added up to 1,000 square meters. Their recently finished second retreat, this one in Segovia province, an hour north of Madrid, is even more precision built. Such was the case with their much-celebrated country house-see A Design Couple’s Rental in Rioja. “In the end, we decant and filter it all to the few elements that become the identity of the project.” Madrid designers Iñigo Aragón and Pablo López Navarro of Casa Josephine edit their work the way certain poets and writers do: “We start with a lot of ideas and we use metaphors from linguistics to understand and define what we’re doing: does it rhyme, how well does this read?” Pablo tells us. Icon - Check Mark A check mark for checkbox buttons. Icon - Twitter Twitters brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Pinterest Pinterests brand mark for use in social sharing icons.
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