Nildo José · May 2024

Terracotta, room by room.

A warm house of panelled wood and garden windows.

Client: Nildo José
Produced: May 2024
Story: CASACOR house
Setting: Terracotta tile, carved panels, garden windows
Pictures: 10

Nildo José's Casa 01 at CASACOR São Paulo 2024: a whole house in terracotta and timber, from a round dining room to a bedroom and bath opening onto bands of garden.

The house is one palette carried through every room: terracotta floor tiles laid in a woven pattern, timber walls cut in low relief, ceilings that curve into light coves. The plan changes, the materials do not.

Garden windows are cut low and long, so the green arrives as a band at eye level: behind the bed, behind the sofa, below the bathroom mirror. Shutters filter the light over the tub.

The sequence also stops on the details that make a house look lived in: a library desk with pinned photographs, a pantry of baskets and jars, a lounge chair by the window.

Round dining table with timber and leather chairs on a terracotta herringbone tile floor — 0110

34 · Nildo José Terracotta tile, carved panels, garden windows

Two rust armchairs and an ottoman on a round rug beside a ribbed terracotta wall — 0210

Upholstered bed facing a long garden window in a terracotta toned bedroom — 0310

Green at eye level.

Linen bed and carved timber side table along a planted window on a striped rug — 0410

Suspended round mirror above a timber vanity and stone basin before a garden window — 0510

Freestanding tub with floor tap and a steel stool before timber shutters and plants — 0610

Stone desk with books, photographs and ceramics under lit timber bookshelves — 0710

Carved timber leaf sculpture and a ceramic vase on a steel counter — 0810

Lit kitchen shelving with ceramics, jars and woven baskets beside timber shutters — 0910

Round leather armchair and carved stone tables before a relief panelled timber wall — 1010

Terracotta, room by room.

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