Experiential, thoroughly modern hospitality spaces are a trademark of Spanish design firm Masquespacio. But when founders Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse set out to purchase a property for their hybrid home–office, they eschewed contemporary quarters in Valencia’s city centre in favour of the historic houses found in the surrounding countryside, eventually settling on a 1920s farmhouse turned villa with original features that hadn’t been erased by past renovations.

Furniture pieces from Mas Creations, the product arm of Masquespacio, include a triangular chair and a terracotta and ceramic ringed table base.

While Hernández Palacios and Penasse were committed to maintaining the essence of the home’s character — glimpses of which can be seen in the original brick walls, modernist hydraulic tile floors, and latticework — the end result is a maximalist reimagining. “The design of the house is a clear representation of our evolution as designers,” Penasse says. “That’s why you find some deco, some futuristic elements, some New Memphis, but also graphical forms.”

Exemplifying Masquespacio’s signature blend of maximalism and whimsy, the upper-level bedroom combines vivid tones of lime green and acid yellow with robust geometric forms.

The home is also a case study of geometric shapes, variegated textures and colour-washed surfaces. For their ground-floor office spaces, the two splashed each room with a bold hue to create definition, demolished portions of existing plaster on the walls to reveal the brickwork and layered curtains of different colours to build dimension and warmth. Sculptural furniture and ceramics from the firm’s own Mas Creations collections further establish a sense of modernity, contrast-ing with the original decorative flooring.

Nowhere is that more evident than upstairs, in the couple’s bedroom. Partially overlooking a double-height interior courtyard, the sleeping space is defined
by two massive forms: a cylindrical magenta screen and a neon-green sphere. The screen wraps around a built-in bench and, along with Mas Creations’ whimsical table and chairs, constitutes the couple’s meditation area. To the right of this, the sphere — actually a 3D-fabricated dome made from foam and covered with micro cement — encases the acid-yellow bed, concealing it from the courtyard to create a sense of disconnection. The playful effect of the oversized fluorescent volumes is softened by microcement floors and contrasted by the industrial character of the exposed beams, ductwork and brick walls, all painted a shade of lilac that’s an extension of the lower courtyard.

While open to the internal courtyard below, the bedroom maintains a sense of privacy through the large-scale volumes that conceal a custom bed and meditation area.

The bedroom also contains a sitting area with a television tucked behind floor-to-ceiling curtains, and additional convention-busting furniture and eclectic objects from Mas Creations. A triangle cut-out in the wall serves as the entrance to the closet. There are no partitions to divide the sleeping quarters from the rest of the upper-level living space; instead, they’re linked by a long corridor that also contains the bathroom, an all-yellow, mosaic-clad space. Despite the small footprint, the designers managed to incorporate another geometric element to maintain a connection to the rest of the home: a vanity in the shape of an inverted triangle.