Home Improvement

Anybody wanting a spectacular home should know that the key is not marrying rich (though it helps) or copying the B&B Italia catalogue. No, just shack up with an architect.

I should know. I wasn’t consciously looking for the next Frank Lloyd Wright, but the smart glasses won me over. And as a bonus, I got a home full of smart details to make everyday living more exciting. Does that door push or slide? Is that a cupboard or the loo?

If you fancy bagging your own architect, then saddle up, as the inaugural World Architecture Festival rides into town tomorrow. Celebrating the best of architecture, amidst all the self-congratulatory backslapping, it features superstars like Norman Foster discussing tall buildings among other things.

But skyscrapers or not, the EUR 600 entry fee can be vertigo-inducing if all you really want is home improvement. Go DIY at Gabriela Rojman’s workshop at Eskandal for a more modest EUR 70.

And that architect of mine? Little more than a geeky engineer with artist anxiety, so I’m back at my own messy pad. See you at tonight’s workshop.

Taller Práctico de Interiorismo
19:30h Tuesday October 21 & 28. EUR 70
Eskandal, Valencia 78, Eixample Esq – 629 705 007
 
World Architecture Festival – October 22-24
CCIB, Forum – EUR 300-600

By SNo