When a young couple approached São Paulo architect Marcio Kogan to renovate an apartment in one of the city’s most exclusive residential buildings, a rare opportunity presented itself. The existing interiors were a pastiche of classical French style that was all the rage among the city’s elite when the property was completed half a century ago, fallen out of favor with succeeding generations.
The team at Kogan’s Studio MK27 was given permission to start with a blank slate. “The only thing the clients asked for was an apartment in light oak. Otherwise, they were open to a totally new adventure,” says Diana Radomysler, the firm’s director of interior design. And so the team, which along with Kogan and Radomysler was led by architect Luciana Antunes, gutted the unit, replacing the overly fussy imitations of an imagined 16th-arrondissement Paris, fleur-de-lis wallpaper and all, with an altogether cleaner approach that fills the flat with more light and greater space.
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