Vilablanch restores and revamps Barcelona's Casa Burés
Interior design studio Vilablanch selected "silent" contemporary furnishings to deck out this Barcelona apartment block, keeping the focus on the building's opulent original features.
Casa Burés ? which is longlisted in the apartment interior category of this year's Dezeen Awards ? has been designed by Vilablanch to feature a host of modern fixtures and furnishings that "don't compete with or imitate the original ones".
The studio has refurbished all 26 apartments in the building, ranging from vast living quarters with frescoed ceilings, to more pared back, white-walled flats.
"We opted for an elegant and sophisticated interior design that recovers and enhances the valuable decorative elements that are part of the history of modernism," explained the practice, which is lead by Elina Vilá and Agnès Blanch. "They're accompanied with elements that are equally refined, but serene, less ornate and silent."
The six-floor building was erected at the beginning of the 20th century by Spanish architect Francesc Berenguer i Mestres and takes its name from its first proprietor, Francesc Burés ? a wealthy businessman who owned several textile companies.
Despite gaining listed status in 1979, over the years Casa Burés had been vandalised and fallen into a state of disrepair.
Vilablanch therefore worked alongside locally based firm TDB Arquitectura to completely restore existing features and make it functional enough to suit the "comfort...
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