This space is the Mexico City home of Laura Aviva, who is the founder of design studio L’Aviva Home in New York.  She fell in love with Mexico City throughout the years and recently decided to take the leap and buy her own pied-à-terre that she completely renovated. 

With this space, Aviva designed a refuge – for her, her friends and team – and a tribute to Mexican contemporary design while shining a light on all of the craftsmen involved. This hybrid project – which is her most personal one to date – also gave her the opportunity to create a context to showcase L’Aviva Home pieces. “Normally, we design products to shine in a range of contexts,” she says. “With this space, we flipped our creative process, and designed a living space *for* our collections.”

Laura Aviva wanted to draw on the connection between the inside and the outside, which was achieved by the wall of windows that forms the entire south side of the space and the use of green in the interiors.  “We paid a lot of attention to shadows,” says Laura. “The light here in CDMX is especially magical and unique, and shifts constantly throughout the day and from season to season. I spent a lot of time at the outset of the project sitting on the floor in the empty space as it went through its various stages of construction, watching the light change throughout and thinking about how to best capture and play with shadows.”

“One of the goals with this project was to really shine a light on all of the artisans involved, expressing techniques in both the selection of materials and their composition, and to create a space that feels deliberate and considered, and crafted by hand,” says Laura.