B | K Apartment
Complete interiors across 500 m² in Cabral: continuous social area with a piano, dining room integrated with the veranda through a mashrabiya screen, indoor barbecue, mint-green kitchen and three bedrooms in a serene palette.
- Typology
- Interiors
- Location
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Floor area
- 500 m²
- Year
- 2024
The client's challenge
The apartment is part of Ícaro Jardins do Graciosa, by AG7, facing Graciosa Country Club — a development designed by Studio Arthur Casas that conceived its units as suspended houses: house-like scale, vertical gardens, visual permeability through cobogó screens and generous natural light. The challenge was to live up to that premise: personalizing the 500 m² interiors without diluting the building's architecture, valuing the connection between vegetation and the urban view. At the same time, it was necessary to accommodate the piano, host guests frequently — including indoor barbecues, in a city with long winters — and ensure three bedrooms with distinct identities for the couple, the daughter and the son, giving unity to an extensive program without falling into a sequence of generic spaces.
The design solution
The social area was treated as a single path: living room, piano, dining room and veranda align on a continuous axis, with calacatta marble unifying the floor and wood panels leading the eye to the urban view. The curved sofa breaks the orthogonality and creates a conversation circle facing the light; the wood mashrabiya screen filters the afternoon sun and creates a smooth transition between dining room and veranda. The barbecue area gained a marble countertop and integrated millwork, becoming a natural extension of gathering inside the apartment, while the mint-green kitchen with a white lacquer island takes on a contained chromatic role. In the bedrooms, the same grammar — curved upholstered headboards, natural fabrics and one noble material per room, such as green onyx marble in the daughter's room — ensures personality without breaking the house's serene palette. Rugs, linen curtains and millwork absorb the excess acoustics of the hard-floored rooms.
The starting point was the social axis. Living room, piano and dining room were organized in sequence, without partitions, so the eye travels through the apartment from the lobby to the windows in a single gesture. Calacatta marble flooring ties the rooms together and the wood panels act as a continuous backdrop, giving scale and warmth to a large space.
The piano stopped being a displaced piece of furniture and became the anchor of a secondary living area, with green velvet stools and an urban view — a place for actual use, not display. Next to it, the solid wood dining table opens onto the veranda through the mashrabiya screen, which filters the afternoon sun, protects against direct exposure and maintains natural ventilation.
Hosting was a priority in the brief. The indoor barbecue area, with a marble countertop, beer tap and upholstered stools, allows the family to gather even during Curitiba's cold months. The kitchen, in mint green with a white lacquer island and cream appliances, was treated as a gathering room: functional in workflow and pleasant for whoever hangs around during preparation.
In the bedrooms, the strategy was to repeat the grammar and vary the material. The master suite leans on gray linen, translucent curtains and parquet flooring for maximum serenity; the daughter's room gains a green onyx marble panel behind the curved headboard; the son's room combines an upholstered headboard, wood desk and suspended TV for study and rest.
Lighting was designed in layers: natural light controlled by blinds and curtains, recessed circuits for general use and low reading and accent lights. Rugs, natural fabrics and millwork offset the reverberation of hard floors, and organic arrangements and vases bring plant life to the center of the rooms.
