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This is a cool bookcase created for a private apartment in Sao Paulo by Brazilian firm Triptyque. The bookcase serves as bulkhead in this apartment, since it winds all the way through the whole place, serving as entertaiment system, bookshels, etc.

Completed in 2006, the apartment features a monumental curving bookcase that wraps around the building’s circulation. The apartment was designed for Houssein Jarouche, owner of the design boutique Micasa in São Paulo. Triptyque also designed the Micasa showroom.

The furniture – pieces of international design collections—was chosen with the client’s participation. The choice was leaded by the configuration of spaces, considering as priority the rooms’ versatility and the possibility of eventual layout changes.

White is the main color used. In the gallery, the white is accompanied by the natural colors of the other materials—concrete, wood and stainless steel—and in the bedroom it is side by side with dark–grey elements, giving it a strong and intimate feel.

Inside, strong elements are confronted, resulting in a poetic conversation. The use of wooden floors, for example, is very expressive: the treated demolition wood and its irregular pieces juxtaposes with the white lacquered bookcase. The artificial makes visual contrast with the rough. In the same way, the kitchen’s concrete speaks to the stainless steel from the drawers and doors.

Therefore, the apartment offers a great variety of points of view, sequences, accidents and movements. The result is extraordinary and surprising – the visual relation created with the loose volumes and the organic omnipresence of the Treme-Treme leads to a unique architectural experience.