MERCADER DE INDIAS - interior design in white

The house of the interior designer Carlos Serra is a reflection of his personality and his way of understanding life, wide spaces with lots of light and where everything seems easier. The kitchen merges with the dining room to create a cozy atmosphere where cooking and enjoying become the same thing.

What stands out most about this house is the pristine white on the floors, walls and ceilings that are the perfect wrapping where Carlos Serra has placed the furniture and decoration pieces, most of which have been acquired during his travels.

A very personal project distributed in different heights in which the spacious living room that revolves around the rest of the house stands out, a space in which the large built-in cupboard stands out and with old Chinese doors where the crockery and kitchenware are located. home clothes.

White also extends to the round dining room table with a central base and surrounded by six African armchairs.

A large sofa, as not in white, is closed around a large fireplace on which rests a child’s suit of the Mao ethnic group. Behind the sofa is a four-meter dresser made of washed elm wood, also of Chinese origin, and on one side a Moroccan marquetry side table with mother-of-pearl inlays.

In the whole of this spacious room, separated by the fireplace, the old hydraulic tile in black and broken white that Carlos Serra has chosen for the worktop and plinth of the built-in kitchen that runs along one side of the house also stands out, where the appliances in black stand out.

Natural textures are another of the main characteristics of this house since wicker, cane, rattan or raffia are found throughout the house, such as the coffee table that is made with a Philippine pineapple fiber fabric with a traditional ethnic drawing.

The colors of the rooms range from green and stone on the first floor to the wide range of blues on the upper floor. This choice of colors is due, as Carlos Serra has explained, to the first floor, being in contact with the earth, is impregnated with those tones of wood and stone while the upper floor, as you have views of the sea, is filled with blues from the indigo. to the blue water.

The main room stands out for the large dressing room separated by sliding cedar doors, handmade in Marrakech by a local artisan, and for the fireplace embedded in a library wall where we find from small Dogon doors, the ones known as “Moorish heads Sicilian, Indonesian shell necklaces, African alabaster vases or a vintage wooden chest of drawers.

The Valencian interior designer’s work table serves as a headboard for the construction bed that is located in front of the fireplace. A few steps separate the spacious and bright bathroom that has an outdoor shower with latticework by designer Patricia Urquiola, also chosen to separate the bathroom. Here we find a piece much loved by Carlos Serra, an Aztec figure bought at the Larco museum in Lima.

Under this covered living area, made all with cane panels, we find two white enamelled iron Moroccan lamps next to a fan that refreshes the outdoor living room made up of armchairs and bamboo table and acapulco chairs.

The deckchairs are also made of bamboo that stand out against the white of the floor and the original latticework of the house. While three large old oil jars close the set created by Serra for this pleasant outdoor space.