Learn how Anthony Baratta and Erick Espinoza turned this apartment from the 40s into a vibrant new home, using creativity, innovation, and colorful rugs.
When a young couple approached interior designer Anthony Baratta and his partner, Erick Espinoza, with a project that involved renovating an old apartment from the 40s into a home where their unique, quirky tastes, as well as a means to show off their expanding, bold art collection.
According to Anthony Baratta, “When someone is a collector, an interior comes out so much more interesting. It has personality before the design even starts.” This meant that they had to first strip the apartment down to its core, to make way for the lively, bright idea the clients had envisioned.
After that, the designers chose to include many different additions, including the colorful rugs we mentioned before. The first rug we’ll be breaking down is located in the living room.
Incorporating the artsy aesthetic of this living room, both colorful rugs blend into the atmosphere. They complement both different sections of the living room differently, so let’s analyze them individually.
The rug we see closer in the image is striving to mix multiple different shapes, sizes, and colors. Although it focuses mostly on warm colors like red and yellow, it also has blue and black to contrast with the tone of the rug, making it unpredictable.
The rug in the other section of the living room, however, is not as colorful, but brings a completly different mood to the table.
It mixes black and white, red and blue to make sure you feel the contrast in this particular rug.
The pattern is unpredictable and looks unstable since the lines are very different from one another, but the flowers present in this piece bring a sense of comfort and safety, soothing and relaxing whoever is there.
The clients have a very strong love for color, patterns, and European design, which resulted in their high involvement in the project.
This love for color can be seen all around the house, with their preference for highly colorful rugs and other pieces of furniture, with out-of-the-ordinary design styles and themes.
The main bedroom is no different from the rest in that regard. Its main color is pink, and you can practically see it everywhere, from the furniture to the wallpaper. The rug in this particular room features a lot of waves and circular shapes, which bring a feeling of fluidity and peace of mind.
This angle shows off a different view of the rug, which makes it much easier to feel what Baratta’s goal was for this room.
In this part of the rug, we can see that the shapes use many more lines to separate the different colors and pass on a more geometrical feel.
The amalgamation of oval and more rectangular shapes makes this rug feel that much more different from the other colorful rugs Barrata’s has used so far, guaranteeing that every part of this room feels just a bit different from the others.
Once again changing themes in comparison to all of the colorful rugs we have seen, the rug in the office has a much more geometrical style, focusing on squares and rectangles, but also introducing a few circular lines to keep the piece unpredictable.
“We all got to create something completely fun and completely custom here. I love that these clients want individuality and don’t care what other people think, because that is when design gets exciting.”
-Anthony Barrata
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Source: Luxe
Photography by Annie Schlechter
