Flat #6 is an apartment that overlooks São Paulo’s skyline through widescreen windows. Home for a couple with three teenager’s sons, the project establishes a permeable living. A generous covered terrace delineates the apartment perimeter in two of its sides, mediating the dialogue between the more intimate spaces and the horizon surrounding them. The living room opens itself to the terrace through a wooden portico - that frame each of its ambiences: a bar, a firepit lounge and a backgammon table. On the terrace’s corner, the bar meets a grand piano, usually played by the owner and his friends on a typical Brazilian “roda de samba”.
The TV room and bedrooms can open and close themselves to this collective ambience through the portico’s slatted wooden doors. The continuity between these spaces is enhanced by the finishings: the flooring, a dark grey basaltine stone and the wooden panels that evolve not only the porticos, but all doors and bookshelf. The decoration adds a layer of tactility to the apartment. A mixture of contemporary and vintage pieces already owned by the couple blends harmonically with the sober finishings and adds a touch of color to the apartment.
It includes great Brazilian vintage pieces and known designs such as Jorge Zalszupin Senior chairs, Onda bench Lenço side table and Giuseppe Scapinelli armchairs. Contemporary designs punctuate the compositions with bold pieces such as Paola Navone’s Nepal Little Armchair. What wraps up it all is the bright sunlight that gets in through the apartment’s windows and the lace curtain that embraces them. Developed by the owner herself, the perforated artisanal fabric acts like a soft mashrabya, filtering the sunlight and creating shadow drawings throughout the apartment.
Natural light warms up every piece and every corner, letting the woods, the velvets and the stones speak louder.