Design House Mexico City 2016

Design House´s invitation was to create a boutique hotel in the heart of Polanco neighborhood in an old neo-baroque mansion with Arabic tones, the kind that hardly exists anymore.

This hotel brings together the work of 22 Mexican interior designers and architects.

We were assigned the lobby, where we pictured the traveller in two moments: his arrival at his temporary refuge and a pause just before he hit the noisy street. We dared to do something we would do in a house: pay homage to the recently deceased David Bowie on the front door. The entrance announces what is to be found inside: the most contemporary Mexican works such as the chest by Ana Laura Guzman, an artist who creates unique pieces with her own hands, or the piece by artist Eduardo Terraza's on top of the chimney, done in Huichol weaving. The staircase is a bold display of blue palm trees with the ceiling painted in the same color, five marble lights and a zebra, the most playful and controversial creature of all, which appeared in every Design House 2017 selfie.