Openhouse #25

205 x 275 mm, 192 pages

Barcelona, Spain (Spanish & English-language)

Biannual

First published in 2014

Founders and editors: Mari Luz Vidal  & Andrew Trotter

Editor-in-chief: Inma Buendía 

Creative director: Mari Luz Vidal

Openhouse pays visits to creative people around the world who open up their homes and private spaces to the public, whether it be for showing art, gastronomic experiences or playing music. 

This issue approaches space in the era of the ‘-holic’—the workaholic, the shopaholic—through the theme ‘Obsessions: A Self Portrait’. It explores the moment when the things we love begin to consume us, and asks whether that surrender might not be such a bad thing after all.

Inside, Openhouse introduces readers to people defined by their proclivities: from the Enrich family, for whom filling rooms with collected and treasured objects is anything but a patrilineal trait, to Paris-based Studio KO, who argue that meaningful design demands a meticulous and deeply devoted research process. Elsewhere, Luis Sendino opens the doors to his 500-piece collection of Japanese postwar furniture, featuring gorgeous sculptural walnut zaisu and functional ceramics. As Imma Buendia writes in her editor’s letter: ‘these obsessions make life a far more interesting place to be’.