Mothern byPillow Hotel, Barcelona

Located in Barcelona, ​​Mothern byPillow has given a radical change to its image through a creative design by Cierto Estudio, based on the use of color. In this hotel, with a protected façade, the biggest challenge has been to transform the spaces without being able to touch the original distribution of the building.

“It is a building whose modernist façade from the 19th century integrates it into the context of the Eixample, while its interior has continued to transform over time. The process design has been a constant search for light, generating different environments thanks to the monochromatic application of color and enabling new uses in spaces, such as corners sporadic work or unexpected areas,” they explain from the architecture studio.

In Mothern byPillow the spaces have been conceived as a sequence in which they appear shapes and colors that give them a characteristic identity and, at the same time, allow the users understand them as a whole. Color is clearly the main tool of the intervention, generating combinations that correspond to the character of each space: the green, as a color that dresses the most peaceful, private, relaxation spaces; the ocher like the vibrant color for meeting spaces, coexistence… and the warm gray color like the one appears when spaces have contact with the outside to enhance the entry of light natural. In the common spaces, red-terracotta accents have also been placed that break continuity and make the atmosphere vibrate.

“It has been painted, covered and selected materials that could coexist harmoniously among them. Cierto Estudio have also practiced new interior openings to generate relationships visual and functional, bringing natural light to the most interior spaces and, in addition, Designers design an ad hoc perimeter furniture system – both in rooms and spaces common areas – that organizes visual information, frees up spaces for multipurpose uses and achieves a clear and continuous aesthetic language”.

This custom furniture, in the case of common spaces, complements its use and even gives them flexibility: breakfast service, co-working, meeting, relaxation, reading, etc. For the rooms, its role is even more important, since it becomes the element integrator that aims to provide them with functionality and order. To that end, the architects have developed modular pieces adaptable to the almost unique conditions of each room to offer guests storage, work and rest space, with a elegant, neat and clean appearance.

For its part, the selection of lamps and furniture that appears in each space represents a balance between functionality, cost and appearance. These become elements that they finish building the character of each area, highlighting its colors, shapes and textures and becoming, in turn, part of the decoration.