Claudia Grajales, interior designer and member of the AD Mexico editorial Board, shares her perspective about the evolution of interior design of Mexican households.
I was born in a modern house: a construction of the 60s with a receiver separated from the dining room by a lambrin that housed a showcase, a room with a volcanic stone wall and a flushed snail staircase. The modern was not usual in Mexico City – the years of the “style” furniture, recharged and with European influences – but my mother came from the north of the country, and her frequent trips to the other side of the border had been instilled a taste for the modern before, paradoxically, it was fashion.
With the decades I could see how contrasting influences, sometimes unexpected, built a Mexican modernity in the interior design: a refined nationalist aspect, from the publication of «Mexican House» ; More contemporary and cosmopolitan avatars with the advent, at the shy principle, of a design culture that had to go through the establishment of foreign signatures in the country, the proliferation of furniture and interior designers of national roots and the growing assimilation of the design to Mexican culture. Today we are more and more Mexicans who understand that each object and each space are based on a design: that is a modern notion.
In my business, Corewe like simple lines. But in the Mexican contemporary interior design many styles coexist: the colonial, the hi-techthe rustic, the Scandinavian, the Art Deco, the Baroque. It is possible to be modern with pieces of all those styles. The modern is authentic: it derives from a desire to learn, from living better. That is the spirit of design.
How do you live? What do you like to do? What are you doing when you get up? What area do you like to be? A house that answers those questions – without wasted spaces, adapted to its inhabitants – has design. A baroque space can be modern if it has design: if who conceives it is known, respect and respect the space.
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