The ’70s look has re-infiltrated the design world, and we’re not always onboard with it. This project, though, by Barcelona-based Conti Cert successfully (and subtly) channels the era by giving it a minimalist twist.
It helped that Andrea Conti and Isa Cert, the principal architects, essentially had a blank canvas to work with. The apartment, on the fifth floor of a building from the 1970s, had been remodeled, again and again, to within an inch of its life, so they opted to remove everything and start from scratch. “All the original layers were in a really bad state under the renovation layers,” they explain. The client, a young hospitality entrepreneur with whom they’d collaborated before, also gave them “complete creative freedom; his only wish was to have three sizable bedrooms and a big open space for day use.”
Left blissfully alone to do their thing, the designers went to work, creating a new layout and thoughtfully adding in the high points of ’70s interior style: earthy tones, sink-in seating, metallic surfaces, and paneled wood. Let’s take a tour.
Photography by Claudia Mauriño, courtesy of Conti Cert.
For more projects by Conti Cert, see:
- Kitchen of the Week: Hardware Store Finds and Thoughtful Storage for a Professional Chef
- Two Flats Are Turned Into One Perfect Home for a Family of Five
- Let the Light In: A Barcelona Flat, Uncramped and Rejuvenated for a Young Couple
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