Gallery House - Casa Galería | Martín Peláez

Gallery House is the personal desire of our clients to create a bright, happy and free home.

This house renovation project has the aim to be an open white canvas. This white canvas is conceived without partitions, articulated by only five artistic pieces. Being this pieces also functional, and intentionally discordant in terms of material and shape.

As the clients themselves say: “this house is very Magritte”.

The kitchen island is a pastel blue onyx volume, like a blue sky frame, or a piece of an ice block that so fascinated them on their trip to Iceland.

A column becomes a sculpture, lined with an polished aluminum buttoned shell made on site. It reflects with- out reflecting clearly, offering a changing and distorted view of the space around.

An ash wooden box houses a folding bed, a wardrobe and a bookcase. The box is componed by five floor to ceiling sliding wood panels, that offers flexible privacy to the night area, the living area and home office.

A cylindrical conch shell, rough on the outside and pearly on the inside, houses the open shower at the same time it provides visual privacy of the sleeping area and living space.

And finally a constructed upholstered linen bed headboard that also contains a book shelf and a open closet. The rest os the needs are solved adjoined to the perimeter of the house. Shelves and work tables, general stor-

age, kitchen furniture, wardrobes and bathroom space. All in white.

A visual continuum is generated from one end of the house to the other. Light, air and gaze navigate through the space without interruption between the five artistic pieces.

Decoration

The second but not least reason why the house was entitled Gallery House, responds to the desire of the clients to add various objects of great artistic and sentimental value since the very first moment. Such as a 19th century gilt mirror inherited from their grandparents, an original chandelier from La Granja Royal Glass Factory, an art decó chest or the fun pink Pupa armchair among others.

Moreover, several ceramics, interesting paintings and art prints were provided. For this reason, various built-in shelves and tables were incorporated, as well as several white pedestals with which to play, creating different compositions.

Regarding general lighting, we worked with adjustable spotlights, once again pursuing flexibility and this idea of exhibition. Another layer of a more intimate indirect light was incorporated in custom-made furniture and some linears were embedded in ceilings and walls.

Some suspended lamps in coppery tones a were also installed creating warm environments with their own personality within the space.

Program

The house is 90% open space and 10% closed space.

The closed space is composed by a complete bathroom, a toilet space and the ash wooden box that, together with the upholstered volume of linen, houses part of the storage.

The rest of the space is open, composed by a dressing and sleeping area, ensuite bathroom, home office, living and dinner room, kitchen and balcony. This last was also solved in a neutral white tone, seeking that visual con- tinuity from the interior enhancing the feeling of light.
White color covers the entire house, from the cement floor, to the walls, ceilings and custom made furniture.

Photography
Amores Pictures @amorespictures