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ISSUE NO. 16 / 5 EUROS &Porcelanosa PAVEMENTS KITCHENS STRUCTURES BATHROOMS QUALITY+DESIGN FUTURE PERFECT EDITORIAL Far-sighted projects There are companies that join in successful projects, whereas other companies, like Porcelanosa Group, generate successful and far-sighted projects. The Porcelanosa Interior Design Contest, and subsequently the award presentation to four big projects, were held in Valencia in a multitudinous event with a debate forum that served as a meeting point for the professionals from the world of design and architecture of today and tomorrow. The current situation of the sector was analysed, as were the challenges and possibilities both in the present and for the future. Also discussed were the new values of the industry and the need for betting on “the creative muscle”. It is on these occasions when a company like Cover photograph: HOTEL BARCELÓ ASIA Porcelanosa Group puts forwards all its values, created and maintained GARDENS & THAI SPA, ALICANTE (SPAIN). thanks to the talent, entrepreneurial skills and teamwork of the eight LIFESTYLE STAFF brands that make up the Group. There are no chances in this success EDITORIAL BOARD – there is solidity and devotion, and the best professionals associated to Cristina Colonques Ricardo Ferrer each project. In Porcelanosa Group, all efforts are concentrated on Francisco Peris the field of innovation and the quest for new and optimal materials in Félix Balado order to strengthen the PUBLISHER technology used and Ediciones Condé Nast S.A. the beauty of shapes, as MANAGING EDITOR Sandra del Río well as to pay the due ART & DESIGN DIRECTOR respect to the natural Vital R. García environs and to the new TRANSLATORS challenges of an ever- Paloma Gil (English) Geneviève Naud (French) evolving world. Lionbridge (Russian) COPY EDITOR Sarah E. Rogers (English) COORDINATION Marta Sahelices (Project Coordinator) Andrea Morán (Print Edition) Photograph of the jury in Valencia: Fernando Salas, Mauricio Anglada, Blanca Jiménez de la Hoz (Features) Isabel López, Alfaro Hofmann, Joan Lao, Cristina Colonques, Tomás Alía. Sukeina Aali-Taleb (Features) PHOTOGRAPHERS David Monfil Alex del Río Pepe Botella PRODUCTION Francisco Morote (Director) Rosana Vicente Juan Ignacio Bocos Fernando Bohúa ARCHIVES Reyes Domínguez (Director) Irene Rodríguez Eva Vergarachea Begoña Sobrín PHOTO LAB Espacio y Punto PRINTER Altair Impresia Iberica Catalogue no.: M-51752-2002 5 72 &Porcelanosa 30 Contents/16 8 10 We discover the new headquarters of Porcelanosa in Miami, Mexico, Lisbon and Mérida. And we enjoy Formula 1 races. 18 Those awarded in the Third Edition of Porcelanosa Interior Design Contest accept their prizes during the First Interior Design Conference by Porcelanosa. 26 6026 Luca di Montezemolo: The soul of Ferrari. 30 Joaquín Torres shows off his architecture work. 18 36 Hotels: The latest in exterior design and landscaping. 44 Interiors & fashion: A perfect couple. 56 The Hotel Gasterij de Roode Schuur interacts with its surrounding environment. 60 Abu Dhabi: It is so... It’ll be so. 68 Alfonso Casares explains his working method and how a hospital is designed. 72 The great eight: The eight brands of Porcelanosa Group exhibit their novelties at the 17th International Ceramics, 36 Kitchen & Bathroom Show. 44 82 Gamadecor wins at Milan International Kitchen Furniture Exhibition. 84 An urban spa in Madrid: So that you can care for yourself in a better way. 86 Urbatek, a brand in demand among the best specialists. 88 Porcelanosa in the world. 90 We’ll be talking about... Santiago Calatrava in New York. 7 Porcelanosa opens a ABOVE (clockwise) Julio new shop in Mexico City in Iglesias Jr., Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera, Tamara the exclusive company of several outstanding Falcó, Carlos Baute, guests: Isabel Preysler, the firm’s image for Isabel Preysler, Mexican over 25 years (she has just arrived from actor Eduardo Verástegui, the opening of another establishment in Genoveva Casanova and Miami); her children Tamara Falcó and Julio Julio’s girlfriend Charisse. BELOW Courtyard of the Iglesias Jr.; the latter’s girlfriend, Charisse; exclusive bankers’ club in two renowned Mexican actors, Ana de la which the opening was Reguera (who has recently starred in a celebrated. film along with Bruce Willis) and Eduardo OPPOSITE PAGE Verástegui (also a producer and singer); Mexican Eduardo Verástegui, Ana de la Mexico City also Genoveva Casanova, a Mexican too, and the Reguera and Genoveva inexhaustible singer Carlos Baute. The event, Casanova share a photo celebrated in the exclusive bankers’ club of with singer Carlos Baute. welcomes Porcelanosa the city, was also attended by executives of Porcelanosa Group, including its President, 8 Manuel Colonques, and representatives of the 9 companies Gilsa, distributor of Porcelanosa in Monterrey, and Palacio de Hierro. The new commercial space, located in Colonia Valle Dorado, has an area of 17,000 square metres, of which approximately 2,000 will be devoted to the display and sale of the company’s products: from the latest trends in ceramic floors and coverings to the most current kitchens, along with elegant designs for floorings in wood or natural stone, and an exhaustive range of bathroom furniture and gear. This shop will consolidate the presence of Porcelanosa in the city, as it already opened to visitors another shop in Interlomas last year. / ABOVE Isabel Preysler with her daughter and actor Eduardo Verástegui. LEFT (clockwise) Directors of Gilsa, the distributor of Porcelanosa in Monterrey: Gilberto Villarreal, Adrian Villarreal, and Eloísa Villarreal. Silvestre Segarra, Porcelanosa advisor, and Inés del Hoyo, José María Blanco, José Luis del Hoyo and Ignacio Reynoso, from Palacio de Hierro. BELOW LEFT Manuel Colonques, President of Porcelanosa, accompanied by Genoveva Casanova and Ana de la Reguera. BELOW RIGHT Isabel; Julio Iglesias Jr.; Tamara and Charisse. 10 Welcome to Miami In the Doral area, and after an exhaustive redecoration and an extension of its facilities, Porcelanosa has just reopened to visitors its Miami shop, a space with new bathroom collections and Isabel Preysler, in a dress from Marta Rota, kitchen furniture and fittings, wardrobes and walk-in and Chábeli Iglesias, wearing a design from Badgley Mischka (both sporting wardrobes. The opening had the invaluable presence jewellery from Suárez), pose in the new of Isabel Preysler, elegant as ever, and her daughter Miami shop, surprising for its modern Chábeli. This was the first of Isabel’s engagements design and its views. in the American continent, since some days later she ABOVE Isabel Preysler and her daughter would travel to Mexico City to preside the opening of with the President and directors of Porcelanosa. a new establishment of the firm. Thus, two new spaces have recently been added to the array of commercial outlets that Porcelanosa has opened around the world. Actually, with the Miami shop, first opened in 1999, the firm has a total of 15 shops distributed all across the United States, since back in 1986 it landed with its first establishment in Anaheim, Los Angeles. The Miami shop, with impressive views of the city, has a renewed showroom of about 1,800 square metres to display the brand’s products, and an office area of 900 square metres distributed between two floors. In addition, it has an extensive parking area for the visitors’ convenience, and an automated logistics centre of 7,650 square metres. Among the attendees to the cocktail party celebrating the reopening of the upgraded space, apart from Isabel Preysler and her elder daughter, were many outstanding people of the city, along with Porcelanosa directors and exceptional guests. / New headquarters in Mérida “The new shop is people from the social and entrepreneurial wonderful, and I am spheres, and had also the presence of well- impressed!” Eugenia Martínez de known personalities, like the famous former Irujo showed this warmth during the recent torero José María Manzanares and the opening of the new shop of Porcelanosa businessman Tomás Terry, both united by a Group in Mérida. The establishment will replace long-standing friendship with Porcelanosa: the Spanish company’s old headquarters in this their countryside properties have many city, which has been present in the Extremadura products from the Group, chosen for their Autonomous Community for more than 15 great quality and innovative designs. years. With more spacious facilities – an area of The Duchess of Montoro responded 2,500 square metres for the display and sales warmly to all the affection she received of the products from the eight brands of the in the opening event of the new Mérida Group – the new shop is located in one of the shop and expressed her gratitude towards city’s best commercial areas, the Commercial Porcelanosa Group, of which she Eugenia Martínez de Irujo accompanied by former torero Park Copansa. José María Manzanares and Manuel Colonques, President of asserted: “I really love all the materials The opening event, attended by around Porcelanosa Group, who received the Duchess in the new they have to decorate the whole house. 900 guests, gathered many outstanding headquarters of the Spanish company in Mérida. Porcelanosa is a great company.” / 12 Porcelanosa illuminates Lisbon Swedish model Helen Swedin has been the one in charge of presenting the new shop of Porcelanosa Group in Lisbon, sited in Avenida Infante D. Henrique (next to Parque de las Naciones). An opening in which the 1,200 attendees had the opportunity of seeing for themselves the ample showroom in which all collections from the Group will be exhibited. With this new space – of about 2,000 m2 – Porcelanosa has already four outlets in the Portuguese country (the other shops are located in Port, Viseu and the Algarve). The new shop in Lisbon highlights once more the overtly international import of Porcelanosa Group and its strong international expansion: its commercial infrastructure surpasses 400 shops all over the world. More than 35 years of experience add to this, making it a solid corporation that never forgets to offer a close relationship and personalised attention to its customers.