"Flow design: The simultaneous expression of conflicting things in a symbiotic manner"
Designing a space where opposites not only coexist but heighten each other.
Think of it like this:
• Contrast as a tool: Raw stone pressed against polished brass, a fine burl wood desktop balanced on the legs of a reclaimed architectural relic
• Balance without obvious symmetry: Lounges placed opposite the main windows, their upholstery a shade lighter than the walls, creating an equilibrium your mind senses before it understands
• Dynamic tension: A cluster of curved, organic sculptures beside a rectilinear fireplace, each silhouette sharpening the other’s personality
• Light meeting weight: The fragility of a glass pendant suspended over a slab of heavily veined marble, neither overpowering, both carrying equal visual authority
S’Oratajada’s interiors move like a composition; one space flowing seamlessly into the next, forms shifting from sculpted curves to deliberate, architectural lines. The rhythm is at once organic and orchestrated, alternating between stillness and movement.
The entrance is a statement in itself,- a grand staircase ascending with the composure of a curated series of plinths, introducing the language of the house.
Here, spheres of Mediterranean materiality are stacked into vertical totems: clay, reclaimed wood, unlacquered brass. At the summit, our Luna lamp crowns the ascent, a quiet cherry on the top.
The main lounge expands in a generous sweep,- curved built-in sofas tracing the perimeter, wide and low, soft and informal, draped in antique heritage linens and punctuated by our sculptural side tables in clay.
Biomorphic silhouettes continue through the house,- in the lines of a 1970s weaved floor lamp, in the fluid contour of a ceramic vessel, the playful curve of a charcoal drawing. They temper the structure’s formal bones, giving it a sense of loosened elegance.
Each bedroom speaks in its own register. The Master is a study of the quintessentially elegant, the beauty of simplicity- crisp optical whites and sartorial detailing. The Verde room is immersive and atmospheric,- maybe a little melancholic and dreamy with its smoky greens layered into pigment-dyed canopies and draped artworks, echoing the lush winter garden outside the door and the deep emerald of the pool seen from its window.
Yet S’Oratajada is more than a conceptual exercise in flow,- its success lies in how functional, how comfortably, how effortlessly it lives. This is a home to be enjoyed, to be lived in, to be shared
Furniture & lighting Design/Decoration/Styling: del Negro Studio
Architecture/Design: More Design
Photography (images yet to be published): Salva Lopez