Bauhaus Apartment

The homeowners sought out the firm with the idea of creating a more spacious and lively apartment, with plenty of room to entertain friends and family and a design that embraced color. The renovation, therefore, focused on opening up the originally compartmentalized space, highlighting the existing structure, and incorporating color into the design.

The primary colors—blue, yellow, and red—chromatically define the spaces where walls were demolished and the concrete structure exposed. In the kitchen, blue is part of a combination of textures among the woodwork, the cement tiles, and the ceiling paint.

In the bedrooms and bathrooms of the private area, other colors take center stage. In the bathrooms, the color of the walls and woodwork extends into the grout of the classic 15x15cm white tiles.

In the decor, modernist furniture pieces have been incorporated into the contemporary design: Barcelona Chairs (Mies Van der Rohe and Lily Reich, 1929), Cesca Chairs (Marcel Breuer, 1928), and the Reversible Armchair (Martin Eisler, 1955), with the first two designed by Bauhaus pioneers.

The Bauhaus Apartment, therefore, bears this name due to the significant influence the school had on the project—from the primary color palette to the choice of furniture.