Hotel Puerta América Third Floor

The hotel brought together many architects and designers, each given a floor. The British design team designed the interiors of the third floor, with almost no restrictions.

The idea was a luxurious, private space pared down to essentials, where each element gains importance through its material: terracotta and marble. The hallway is painted entirely black, giving depth and privacy, with triangular bundles on the ceiling and strips of light set at intervals in the lacquered walls, like a tunnel through time.

The rooms follow a strongly geometric idea of space. The whole floor is covered in small terracotta tiles of seven by 21 centimetres, continuing up into fitted surfaces, and dark stone basins complete the bathrooms.