Neolith® Beton specified throughout chic Madrid apartment, creating highly attractive visual contrast
Neolith®, the pioneering brand of sintered stone, is fast becoming a material choice for high-end, high-concept residential renovations. Recently, it played a pivotal role in a penthouse project, for luxury property developer and architect Herrero & Vázquez.
A sparing choice of materials is incredibly important to Herrero & Vázquez’s approach; they usually specify just using three to four patterns across the entire property.
This careful curation helps to bring understated personality to their work, in a straightforward and unfussy way, with the over-arching goal of achieving a minimalist, balanced and beautiful interior.
Significantly, their use of Neolith’s surfaces throughout the interior of a sophisticated Central Madrid apartment, in the city’s fashionable Chamberí district, brought the overall design concept together for visually captivating results.
Sculptural Elegance
Entering this marvellously modish apartment, visitors find themselves in a light, airy, open-plan living area with a kitchen to the left, and behind that a corridor leading to a well-appointed master bedroom.
The eye is immediately drawn to the room’s centrepiece, a dual fireplace and shelf unit specified in Neolith Beton. This impressive feature brings the whole living area together in a contemporary and convivial way. It’s something to gather around during the cold winter months and admire all year-round, like a piece of abstract sculpture.
This is further framed by high ceilings, brushed oak floors, crisp white walls and cabinetry, and exposed structural concrete columns, creating a light, airy atmosphere.
You can ‘Beton’ it
Moving to the kitchen, Neolith is a natural choice for applications in this space. Not only does it look attractive, it also possesses performance qualities found in few other materials. Ultra-hygienic, highly resistant and scratch, stain and water proof, it can withstand the daily impact of culinary activity. Further, coming in a range of over 50 colours, patterns and finishes, it can match any design brief.
Continuing with the concrete theme, 6mm and 12mm Neolith Beton has been specified throughout the kitchen space, cladding all cabinetry, applied across all worktops and laid as the area’s flooring. Spotlessly sophisticated, statement walls in honey-coloured timber provide and interesting optical juxtaposition.
Choosing Neolith Beton also met the project’s rigid sustainability brief. Manufactured in a carbon neutral environment from 100% natural raw materials, its production is far less carbon intensive than architectural concrete. Further, Neolith slabs contains substantially less embodied carbon than poured or precast concrete.
Boxing Clever
The contrasting theme of concrete and wood is also explored in the master bedroom, emphasising Herrero & Vázquez desire to create a consistent, holistic atmosphere across the property. Importantly, the design needed to deliver a distinct character, without becoming overbearing and intrusive, a home which the owner could stamp with their own tastes and preferences.
Benefitting from plenty of natural light and minimalist detailing, Neolith Beton is used for the cladding of a statement ‘box’ which contains a wet room, equipped with a ‘his and her’ sink vanity, and for the flooring.
Just Wonderful!
Commenting on the use of Neolith in the project, José Ignacio Herrero, from Herrero & Vázquez Housing said, “For the residential project, we wanted to create a cool, contemporary and uncomplicated space using the very best materials, fixtures and fittings. Working with only three or four different materials challenges us to be more creative in the design process. We chose Neolith not only because of its versatility, but its incredible range of highly-defined colours and patterns.”
José Ignacio continued, “From a contractor perspective, Neolith also offers the reassurance of longevity and performance. Fundamentally, it’s a material you can trust. As we are also the contractors, we need to be extremely careful in our choice of building products because we’re directly accountable to our customers for the quality of the workmanship. As such, its high durability, ease of fabrication and various guarantees made choosing it unavoidable!”
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