Way Magazine 8

The summer issue: the most privileged, the one to which we can dedicate full attention, the one we read with a clear brain, open to inspiration. And thank goodness! Because, if there is something in this issue, which was created in part during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, it is inspiration, novelty, freshness. A phrase from Oscar Wilde guides the eighth of our numbers: “Every good work seems perfectly modern.” In its pages, we have dared to take the ball of the future to compile those pieces and projects that “we will possibly perceive as current in several decades, because their quality is underpinned by strong concepts,” as the editorial says.

INTERIORS AND ETERNAL CREATORS

The project on the cover, a refuge in the sky of Santo Domingo, the work of Jorge Brown Cott, and its wise eclecticism rooted in Latin American tradition, is a perfect example of all this. Of freshness, daring and eternity. So is the house of interior designer Toni Espuch, where each object tells the story of humanity and invites us to experience beauty, or that of Alfonso Tost, which is a reflection of his experiences and travels.

You will find that air of eternity in the apartment that Marta de la Rica, a continent for Art with a capital letter, or in those projects where nature is the protagonist, either as a source of well-being, as in the oasis created by Guto Requena in São Paulo, either as a protagonist, as in the Copas house in Valle del Bravo (Mexico), where the natural environment grows freely and the interior responds to this wild force. You will find it above all in the house that the Mexican architect Agustín Hernández built for his sister, the choreographer Amalia Hernández, in Mexico City following the principle that architecture has to reflect the vital movement of whoever lives there.

You will want to retire in the Lisbon apartment where Studio Gameiro has exalted the old to create something new, a contained interior, almost monastic in appearance, in that home in the port of Ibiza where you can stop and create memories on the island, the work of Sofía Leirós and his signature, Mestizo, or in the apartment in Torremolinos with which Sierra de la Higuera opens a portal to the splendid years that the Costa del Sol lived.

PARTS THAT WILL SURVIVE US

As it could not be otherwise, those pieces that marked us on our trip to Milan have their place of honor: the Good Manners section of this issue. Here, and in the Hall, we present those projects destined to leave their mark on history.