Manera #16

A bold interior design issue where color takes center stage, featuring homes that offer diverse ways to experience summer. A leisurely look back at the Salone del Mobile , a visit to the Alfombras Peña archives , and an interview with an architect and an artist who share a unique vision of the city, light, and domesticity. MANERA 16 has arrived at newsstands, ready to be enjoyed with the calm and lightness that only summer can bring.

The cover offers a glimpse of the theme within: Villa 2030, designed by Plutarco in Madrid. A contemporary reinterpretation of the rationalist villas of the 1930s that, rather than looking to the past, points to a new way of inhabiting space. From there to Lanzarote , to a villa designed by Yoann Le Mercier with respect for the legacy of César Manrique . Architecture that opens up to the landscape. We change archipelagos and land in Mallorca , in a 17th-century house that is now the refuge of gallery owner Marta Moriarty and which photographer Ricardo Labougle has captured for a new book that reflects the island's most charismatic interiors. And then to Menorca, where Maria Joao interprets the Balearic style according to her own rules.

On the island of Pantelleria, we know of its traditional houses, the dammusi , which John Brown Projects have transformed into an intimate retreat. And, following another tradition—in this case, the Mayan worldview—Alejandra Esteve has designed Casa Terra in Tulum , Mexico, as a dwelling that expresses itself through earth, time, light, and shadow.

We also have a palatial experience that begins in the historic center of Cáceres with the Hotel Palacio de Godoy , a 16th-century palace where the stone tells a story thanks to the meticulous work of Szymon Keller. Similarly, Katja Pargger's hotel is located in a castle that was once the center of bourgeois life in the French region of Sologne during the 19th century and is now a retreat and haven of hospitality where contemporary design blends seamlessly with its original essence.

And finally, we return to urbanity, to a house in Valencia whose soul was rescued by Balzar Architects in Paris , where Emanuelle Simon has transformed some old dark and compartmentalized stables into a continuous and luminous interior with a Japanese sensibility crossed by art deco gestures.