Valencia-based interior design studio Masquespacio has brought a dozens of colors, playful objects and materials into its home studio in Valencia, Spain. 

The two-story home studio has emerged as a combination of different styles inspired by New Memphis and Art Deco movements with futuristic touches in the interior design.

Masquespacio created a space that serves as both a studio on the first floor and their home on the upper floor. Colors, textures, and materials are combined with geometric shapes to create unique aesthetics.

The story begins three years ago when office founders Ana Hernández and Christophe Penasse were searching for a house in the center of Valencia. 

The search, which was filled with misfortunes, eventually led them to a house with the characteristics of typical Valencian houses from 1925. When they saw this house, the couple decided to convert the ground level into a studio and reside on the upper level.

Read the full design narrative with the designers' own words. Our intention always was to maintain the essence of the house’s historical character, respecting the beauty of its past," said Masquespacio. 

When entering the house, you can see that we maintained the original hydraulic tile floors made in Valencia, as well as the skirts and ceiling, together with its brick walls.

Being our office here, to the character of origin we added a contrast of colors, while we created tables using a similar lattice than the one from the façade and combined with colored wood. With the use of curtains in different colored layers our intention was to add a touch of warmth to the space.

Going a step further in the house we can see the meeting room where we recognize again the layered curtain and the table with lattice legs and wood top that makes a connection with the materials in our office, while in this area we use a colored microcement floor and a wrinkled texture on some of the walls. Those 2 last material incorporations create a connection point with the materials we use in our home on the first floor of the house, as from this space you get up to our kitchen and living room.

Before we go upstairs, we take a walk towards the interior courtyard at the end in which we created an interior garden that is making a transition point between spaces, where we can have a family lunch, do some sports or do a photoshoot of our designs amongst others

In the house upstairs the highlight comes from the play of square, triangle, circle and semicircle forms, that remind to our past when we were still doing graphic design, although some visitors also told us that it remembers them of the time, we developed New Memphis projects. Here, we also wanted to respect the beauty of the old details of the building, however our hand is more visible in search of combining an aesthetic with a touch of brutalism, but reinvented with our contrast of colors, artisan materials, textures and forms. 

The first space we top on is the kitchen / living room together in an open space where we immediately recognize the mentioned play of forms contrasts by the used materials. Here we looked for more sophisticated materials like marble, aluminium, microcement and handmade tiles. 

The furniture from its side that was all designed by our studio as a part of our Mas Creations collections, aspired to highlight at every time its particular textures, forms, materials and colors. The explosion of colors is stronger in this space, but also offers a sense of freshness to the environment. 

To be highlighted is the collection of CONO (cones) that our part of the first collection we designed and produced in our studio directly, using 3D clay printing, finished by hand. With the curtains on the other side, we also add some more warmth to the space, while the staircase that takes you to the maintenance roof was kept in its original state. 

When leaving the kitchen / living room we pass through a corridor that on the left side connects with a small terrace, while a bit further we find the bathroom that catches your attention through its splash of yellow color created with handmade tiles and the wall made of the traditional Mediterranean trencadis technique. 

The wall finished with rough cement reminds us of the meeting room on the ground floor and the partly industrial character of the building. Then on the left side we see a custom-made curtain, that privatizes this area, while we see a few items of our furniture collections on the way further. 

At the end of the space, we find the crown jewel that is our sleeping room in which instantly the bed in a ball form with a touch of fluor color is catching all the attention. This dome that offers us total disconnection at the end of the day was designed by our studio and manufactured with a 3D robot. 

On the right side of the bed, we created a small tv room with more pieces from our collections, while at the left side we have our meditation room with its pink fluor touch. 

In summary, the project of our house is representing very well our career and the artistic style we have been developing during all these years, from the graphical beginnings we had, to a touch of New Memphis and sometimes a futuristic air, while in every moment we aimed to maintain and respect the original state of the house.

View from Masquespacio's studio

View from Masquespacio's studio

View from Masquespacio's studio 

View from Masquespacio's studio 

View from Masquespacio's studio

View from Masquespacio's studio 

View from Masquespacio's studio

View from Masquespacio's studio

View from Masquespacio's studio

Ground floor plan - studio

First floor plan - home

Masquespacio completed a beauty salon that features the shades of peach, yellow and green in the heart of Milan. The studio designed the interiors of a gym to reflect the mood of 1980s techno style and cyberpunk in Salzburg, Austria.

Project facts

Design: Masquespacio 

Furniture collections & objects: Mas Creations 

Surface: 450m2

Completion date: September 2023.

All images © Luis Beltran. 

All drawings © Masquespacio.

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