Apartamento #34
170 x 240mm, 386 pages
Barcelona, Spain (English-language)
Biannual, since 2008
Publishers/creative directors: Nacho Alegre, Marco Velardi, Omar Sosa
Editorial director: Robbie Whitehead
The ‘everyday life interiors magazine’ has established itself as one of the leading lights of independent magazine publishing. It has been as influential for the way it uses interiors as a way into people’s lives as for its actual coverage of interior design and products, and for its bookish layout.
It’s another rich survey of bright creative folk. Leading with Brussels design collective Espace Aygo in their ongoing villa restoration project, the issue also presents singer Celeste at home in East London, artist Rose Wylie, textile designer/printmaker Beca Lipscombe (one half of Atelier E.B), and photographic artist Gary Scheider and partner John Erdman in Long Island.
Plus Lou Stoppard meets designer Lauren Bethan Wood, who created the issue’s spine design, and following her appearance in the latest Gentlewoman, Olivia Laing pops up here too. There’s fiction,