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Photos by Manuel S\u00e1. Images courtesy of Guto Requena, shared with permission<\/p>\nPhotos by Manuel S\u00e1. Images courtesy of Guto Requena, shared with permission<\/p>\n
December 22, 2025<\/p>\n
Design<\/a><\/p>\n Kate Mothes<\/a><\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n \t\t\tShare \t<\/p>\n \t\t\tPin \t<\/p>\n \t\t\tEmail Bookmark<\/p>\n In S\u00e3o Paolo, a midcentury interior is reimagined into a \u201chybrid habitat<\/a>\u201d by architect Guto Requena<\/a>. The project, called \u201cApartamento Varanda,\u201d reimagines a modernist residence, originally constructed in 1962, with contemporary details that nod to its decades-old spirit while incorporating a particularly organic element in the form of lots and lots of plants.<\/p>\n Draped from rafters or bespoke frameworks, Brazilian botanicals create a green oasis indoors. What Requena describes as a \u201ctrue urban forest\u201d is then complemented by a range of iconic furnishings from both modernist and contemporary eras. See more on the studio\u2019s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n Hide advertising<\/p>\n Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n Get 15% off in the Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n Join us today!<\/p>\n $7\/month<\/a><\/p>\n $75\/year<\/a><\/p>\n Explore membership options \t\tPrevious article<\/a>Next article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Manuel S\u00e1. Images courtesy of Guto Requena, shared with permission December 22, 2025 Design Kate Mothes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[463,449,458,459,64,63,11308,460,134,198495,14160],"class_list":{"0":"post-365439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-brazil","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-guto-requena","18":"tag-plants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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