The Rosegold Apartment

The 85 square metre apartment came from splitting a large flat in two, leaving its entrance at the inner end and a gallery overlooking a large courtyard at the other. The original hydraulic mosaic floors, rich in patterns and colours, were kept and restored by the Spanish design team.

Within a width of just over six metres, two bedrooms were placed on the inner side, lit by two small courtyards, so the living room, kitchen and dining space could open fully to the courtyard. From the entrance, two fronts clad in rose-gold metal lead toward the day spaces, broken only by two dark blue lacquered timber shelves, and their height line continues as a subtle change of colour past the original timber beams.

Where the mosaic had been lost, a new off-white microcement floor was laid. The kitchen uses a pink marble assembled from offcuts, and in the living room a section of load-bearing wall between two openings to the gallery is covered in gold leaf, catching the light from the courtyard.