If we have learnt one thing over the last year, it’s how our homes are one of the fundamental cornerstones of our lives.
Home is the place we always want to go back to, like children running hurriedly towards a comforting hug from their parents.
Another thing that we have learnt lately is that interior design plays an important role in our wellbeing. A harmonious and calm space can have a healing effect on us. Home has become our sanctuary, so it is important to create welcoming and harmonious spaces where we can live and feel peaceful.
Beyond decoration or striving for aesthetic beauty, following fashion or styles, interior design aims to generate emotions. Psychology and interior design are therefore like two inter-twined snakes who feed and nourish each other, offering our lives the necessary balance.
And if anyone has elevated interior design to the scientific category, it is, without a doubt, Terraza Balear, one of the most prestigious design studios in Europe. It is based in Majorca, and since 2010 it changed from being an outdoor furniture showroom to being a company that offers complete interior design services which are able to transform spaces uniquely, creating top-quality exclusive services. This path of growth has allowed the most prestigious brands in the sector (Minotti, Flexform, B&B Italia, Poliform, Rimadesio, Paola Lenti, Tribù) to compete to be in their ranks, and many of them are now no 1 for sales in Spain and Europe.
A young team of 60 people work passionately to marterialize the 200 projects that they take on each year, both in the Balearic Islands and in Europe. Remote working is becoming more and more common for this Majorca-based company, with projects in Switzerland, Sweden, England and Germany, such as the recent success story of a luxurious and welcoming ski residence in the Swiss Alps, completed 100 % remotely.
The Mediterranean as an endless source of inspiration
Over the last few years, Majorca has become a place where people not only spend their summer holidays, but also live and settle with their families. In no hurry, but relentlessly, the idyllic Mediterranean island known as ‘the island of calm’ has offered a very different way of living, far away from the whirlwind of the large urban areas. A life in real contact with nature and fresh air. A full life, without giving anything up.
This precious place is, without a doubt, a source of inspiration for the team of architects, designers and interior designers from Terraza Balear, who treat each project like an artistic composition where the combination of materials, elements and textures create a perfect work of art, with a strong personality and a contemporary feel. Above all, it has the same guiding thread and coherence of elements, from the entrance to the property to the sea or mountain view, creating a unique and beautiful concept.
A picturesque work of art where the light from the Mediterranean acts as a great emotional modulator and where nature plays a vital role. Specifically, the neutral, warm tones and colours present in nature (tones called “Mother Earth”) are those which stand out most in interior design over the last few years. They offer warmth and distance themselves from natural schemes that have dominated recently.
According to Mariana Muñoz, CEO of Terraza Balear
The architecture of light
Contemporary architecture has given way to showcasing light and creating open spaces which make the most of light in homes. In current architecture, kitchens open out into living rooms, following our contemporary lifestyle where the beating heart of family and social life is in this space, without elements which obstruct the visual field from the living area, with the sofa as a key piece, the anchor and meeting point for those living there.
Spaces where architecture and design are in perfect harmony while making the most of atmospheres and promoting the relationship between indoors and outdoors. Always considering that each interior space responds to different needs, depending on its location. For example, a beach-front home requires natural materials such as light wood in neutral tones. In a city, materials with character which can coexist alongside elegantly designed pieces, strong textures and unique pieces. Meanwhile, a country home needs noble materials, natural and aged wood, complemented by the presence of artisan elements which can transmit emotions.
The importance of contrasts
If details are important, contrasts are royalty. “Caring for and indulging each and every detail makes it possible for a design to have the necessary contrasts which give personality and style to a property”. For this, “each material, each element, each texture in each corner of a property must be studied with the intention to use these subtle contrasts which provide; strength, richness, elegance, character, presence and beauty”, states Muñoz.
Ultimately, the design of the beauty and emotions service, where we indulge ourselves with the sensations triggered by natural materials, pleasant textures, seductive fragrances or flickering candlelight, all and as much as necessary to emphasise our desired wellbeing.
Mariana Muñoz assures that the key to this creative process is in the details,
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