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Book: Barcelona Interiors

Stanley Abercrombie -- Interior Design, 10/8/2001 4:24:00 PM

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Barcelona Interiors
	Barcelona: Loft Publications, distributed in the U.S. by Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, NY by edited by Francesc Alvarez; photography by Eva Serrats 176 pages, 124 color illustrations; $34.95 paperbound Buy at Amazon.com for $34.95.
An eclectic collection of 19 characterful apartments in Barcelona. Although the one shown on the cover is in Antonio Gaudí's famous Casa Milá, there are few direct references, even in that case, to the history of the city's architecture. Many are in loft and warehouse spaces not originally meant for habitation. Many are highly personal in their décor-a black kitchen with white counters, silk chandeliers above bookshelves of steel pipes, tables made from packing crates, lifesize portraits of prizefighters painted on the walls. It is all an appealing mix of the pristine and the funky, with perhaps a tilt towards the funky. The photographs, like the rooms, are full of personality, but some of them are marred by the unmoderated glare from windows.

Interior Design Magazine, July, 2001
Classification: Style

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