Ana Tena: when interior design draws inspiration from haute couture
Ana Tena: when interior design draws inspiration from haute couture
Yves Saint Laurent drew on the constructivist work of Dutchman Piet Mondrian to make their famous “Mondrian Dress.” Presented as part of the haute couture collection for the fall/winter season of 1965, this garment started a movement of collaboration between art and fashion that is still present today. In turn, this dress has also been a resource that has provided inspiration to creators from other disciplines – including interior designer Ana Tena, who has just designed a sliding wood and glass door for a luxury home inspired by the “Mondrian Dress” and in pure neoplastic style.
Ana Tena sees many parallels between the trade of dressmaker and that of interior designer and, following this analogy, her work undoubtedly resembles a haute couture dress. Her involvement in the search for the finest materials and her almost obsessive perfectionism yield impeccable and stimulating results.
To maintain the high standards demanded by her clients (and by herself), Ana Tena accepts a very small number of projects every year. In 2022, she remodeled a home measuring 250 m2, an apartment measuring 150 m2, a shop measuring 350 m2 (the Manila boutique), and an apartment measuring 130 m2 – all in the center of San Sebastián. In the case of her latest renovation job, in addition to the aforementioned door inspired by the Saint Laurent dress, also striking are the flush baseboards and the curved wall of a bedroom covered with milled wooden planks. Her next job consists of the full remodel of a home measuring almost 130 m2.
Thanks to her background as an industrial designer, Ana Tena creates her spaces as a whole, designing not only the floors, walls, and ceilings but also a large part of the furniture (tables, dressers, boxes, dishes, etc.). Whether constructing a new villa or carrying out a highly complex technical renovation, she collaborates with architect Katrin Marrero, someone she has been working with for years.
Thanks to all this, Ana Tena’s interiors feature a recognizable, functional, simple, and timeless style; they are unique spaces made with fine materials and which combine current industrial techniques and craftsmanship. As Cristóbal Balenciaga said, “A good couturier should be: an architect for patterns, sculptor for form, painter for drawings, musician for harmony, and philosopher for measure.”
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