lifestylePORCELANOSA ISSUE NO. 26 / 5 EUROS RAMÓN ESTEVE COOL MEDITERRANEAN CLEAR LINES LWA, NORDIC THOUGHT IN THE WORLD EIGHT BIG BRANDS THE 22ND INTERNACIONAL EXHIBITION BY PORCELANOSA GROUP KELLY HOPPEN DESIGN AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS CARLOS JIMÉNEZ SENSIBLE ELEGANCE 8TH ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN PRIZES 2015 BY PORCELANOSA GROUP COVER PHOTO: Private swimming pool of one of the villas at the Maalifushi by COMO resort, Maldives. lifestylePORCELANOSA EDITORIAL BOARD Cristina Colonques Francisco Peris EDITORIAL Félix Balado PUBLISHER Ediciones Condé Nast S.A. MANAGING EDITOR Great expectations Sandra del Río ART & DESIGN DIRECTOR Vital R. García Tardn Porcelanosa Group closed its 8th Architecture and Interior TRANSLATORS Design Prizes as a benchmark company in the sector. On a Paloma Gil (English) Geneviève Naud (French) night lit up by the talent of architects and interior designers, Lionbridge (Russian / Polish) Asia Idiomas (Chinese) this project, showcasing eight iconic brands, was consolidated Pichamonch Pintola (Thai) as they managed to surpass their own quality and standards of COPY EDITOR Monique Fuller (English) technology for yet another year. The moving words of Belén COORDINATION Moneo – who was among the prize winners – called for Marta Sahelices (Project Coordinator) Andrea Morán (Print Edition) passion, creativity and the growing involvement of women in Marisa Santamaría and Gema Monroy (Features) the world of architecture. PHOTOGRAPHERS Eight brands showed their best new products at Porcelanosa Esmeralda Álvarez nd PRODUCTION Group’s 22 International Exhibition: an unmissable event Francisco Morote (Director) Rosana Vicente that has made Villarreal the sector’s operational hub, with Juan Ignacio Bocos professionals, artists, designers and businesspeople from all Fernando Bohúa RESEARCH over the world. Reyes Domínguez (Director) Irene Rodríguez And if this were not enough to clearly show the enthusiasm Eva Vergarachea and hard work that makes and maintains our company, PHOTO LAB Espacio y Punto Porcelanosa Group’s big project, the opening of its New York PRINTING headquarters in a historic Fifth Avenue building – right in the A.G.S. & Altair Impresia BINDING heart of Manhattan – is now scheduled. Felipe Méndez Porcelanosa Group thus accepts its leadership and projects Catalogue no.: M-39590-2012 onto the world its entrepreneurial experience thanks to its hard work, creativity, honesty and a vision for the future. ICONTENTS ISSUE No. 26 8 NEWS EVENTS 10 NEWS DESIGN 12 NEWS ARCHITECTURE 14 AN APPOINTMENT AT THE PALACE Prince Charles presides over the charity dinner with 14 76 Porcelanosa Grupo as the patron. 16 A BEAUTIFUL SHOWROOM IN ROMA Porcelanosa Group renovated an ‘Immobile di Particolare Bellezza’ on Via Salaria. 18 A NEW SHOP IN MEXICO On Avenida Altavista and attended by actresses Jacqueline Bracamontes and Amaia Salamanca. 20 8TH ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN PRIZES Porcelanosa Group awards its yearly prizes at Madrid’s Ritz hotel. 42 20 68 32 76 INTERNATIONAL NORDIC DESIGN The Christian Lundwall studio endows several international hotels with a Nordic style. 26 WINNING PROJECTS We discover why these projects are the best and most acclaimed. 80 SHOWROOM IN ALBUIXECH A new 50 exhibition space, designed by the Vicente 32 CARLOS JIMÉNEZ A judge on the panel for Navarro studio, opens in Valencia. the Porcelanosa Prizes. We tour through the 42 CASA SARDINERA The Ramn Esteve career and the best work by this Costa Rican studio designed a house atop a hill, fusing the 82 SHA WELLNESS CLINIC This centre for architect based in the USA. sea and a limitless horizon. health and well-being expands its facilities using materials by Porcelanosa Group. 38 THE VIRGIN HOTEL CHICAGO A new 50 22ND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BY establishment comes to the Windy City PORCELANOSA GROUP The eight firms 87 PORCELANOSA IN THE WORLD with a vintage feel and natural materials by belonging to Porcelanosa Group present their Porcelanosa Group. best new products at the Villarreal fair. 90 TALKING ABOUT... The new BBVA headquarters designed by Herzog & de Meuron. 68 BRITISH INTERIOR DESIGN Kelly Hoppen, British designer of interiors and furniture, as well as a lecturer, celebrates 40 years in the profession and tells us about her philosophy for life. INEWS EVENTS Texts: Marisa Santamaría. PROTAGONISTS IZASKUN CHINCHILLA The sport of kings in Manila ARCHITECT zaskun Chinchilla was this year’s winner at the fifth edition of New York’s City Iof Dreams Pavilion competition. The judging panel of FIGMENT – the annual art festival held on New York’s Governors Island – highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of the ephemeral installation that will be built for this summer’s event: “Organic Growth is the title of my project for the city of New York. I have proposed a group of domes and tree-like Among the public at the sporting stands inspired by the growth pattern of event were Héctor Colonques, Every year, polo gallops Hydrangea macrophylla or the hydrangea, Managing Director of Porcelanosa powerfully onto the green a species that adapts its shape to its Group for Asia, and David Lucas fields of The Manila Polo environment. The pavilion, which will be Balangue, President of The Manila Club in the Philippines. The made of broken umbrellas, bent bike Polo Club. President’s Polo Cup is a wheels, old camera tripods and recycled top-level international event car wheels, will be reused once its original whose host, David Lucas function has been fulfilled. The work Balangue – the club’s president – brings up of famous players Jim Donovan, Tommy provides shade while at the same time together some of the world’s best teams. Bitong, Manot Montilla and Jones Lanza – and casts shadows that change depending on The championship is among the elite events the Blue Team, with Sonny Borromeo, Alfie the light, creating interesting ambiences. that are celebrated throughout the year in Araneta, Jay de Jesus and Anthony Filamor, I am very satisfied, as I raised the funding a number of countries. All this is also made who set the high level of this competition with the help of over 470 donors and possible thanks to the sponsoring companies, that finally ended with victory for the former. investors who were excited by this project including Porcelanosa Group. This game, Porcelanosa Group is the main sponsor of and who made small contributions via called “the sport of kings”, is one of the world’s this sporting event and, in addition, offers a Kickstarter. Organic Growth projects oldest equestrian sports, series of post-match events: a positive message conveyed by my requiring a perfect balance lively social get-togethers understanding of architecture: a structural of strength, elegance and PORCELANOSA that take place in the heart of and formal recycling process connected, amazing speed. Scoring the club’s East Terrace where among other things, to the “environmental goals while on horseback is a Krion® bathtub presides crisis” which makes us truly grasp once and not easy – balls and sticks as a ‘symbol’ and icon of the for all that the earth’s natural resources flew with passion during firm. Another Spanish star this exciting President’s at the event is Codorniu’s Polo Cup. The highpoint Blanc de Blancs Brut cava, was the showdown between served throughout days of the White Team – made the competition. GREEN PARTIES Plants, greenery and natural vegetation as decoration for parties and events are still a popular are limited. This design and the way it international trend. One of the was funded also reflect the “economic companies that creates design items crisis” which has affected the availability and vertical and horizontal gardens – of economic resources and is forcing slanting, too, if required – is Fransen et architecture to generate wealth for more Lafite, aka the couple Patrick Fransen communities and for longer periods. This and Francisco Javier Alcaín Lafite, installation hopes to bring the public’s florists and landscapers, and designers attention to the uses we can give to of very “green” parties. the objects that surround us in our own habitats.” INEWS DESIGN Texts: Marisa Santamaría. PROTAGONISTS LEONOR ESPINOSA Lera Moiseeva. COLOMBIAN CHEF Designs from Russia esign and gastronomy come with love together in the hands of Leonor DEspinosa. She has spent years Lera Moiseeva, a designer of Russian rescuing the roots of Colombian cuisine descent, is taking her place as an up and from all over the country – from its desert coming talent on the international scene. Each to its rainforest, via the Pacific, Atlantic month she travels from New York to Milan or and Caribbean coasts, the Andes and the Madrid in order to present her new collections eastern Llanos basin. and collaborations with important designers. “My vision of cooking and of Colombian Her work with designer Lucca Nichetto, with culinary tradition is always imaginative and whom she created a project for the brand ground-breaking, but also pragmatic. The Mjlk, is reflected in the design of Sucabaruca, reason for this lies in my training as an a coffee set influenced by the cultures of Italy, economist and an artist: this has had a direct Scandinavia, America and Japan, and which influence on my concept of gastronomy: via a series of talks and meetings took on quality-innovation-commitment. I greatly its conceptual shape enjoy designing the entire spaces of my to turn the daily act of restaurants as well as their tableware and drinking coffee into a cutlery, in fact every detail that a pleasurable ritual. “I have a passionate eating experience encompasses. Her latest successes, approach to design; I presented at Milan’s believe this is because of Salone del Mobile, were my Russian roots, which the “Matryoshkapara” I never forget. But at the glass vase collection same time, I am a world for the company citizen: travelling and Nason Moretti, and discovering new projects, her Manhattan sofa for taking ideas from – and Berto Salotti.