WE HAPPENED UPON ONE detail in this 16th-century family manor in the Cotswolds on Instagram and immediately had to find out what the rest of the home looked like. That one detail was in the drawing room, where a second walkway was converted into an ultra-chic bar area, with antique mirror was installed above and behind the shelves to reflect light (see below). As it turns out, there's a very interesting story to the place...
Everyone seems to be talking about the Los Angeles-based interior design / architecture firm of Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, lately, the husband and wife team who run Atelier AM and have been around for fourteen years. Most likely it has to do with the recent feature The Wall Street Journal ran on them about a month ago.
In 1973, the architect discovered an old cement factory no longer in use in Sant Just Desvern, a town in Catalonia, Spain, just outside of Barcelona. The factory was dated from the first period of the industrialization of Catalonia, and as such, was not built at once or as a whole, but as a series of additions as the various chains of production became necessary. It consisted of enormous silos, a tall smoke stack, machine rooms, some four kilometres of underground tunnels and stairs that climbed to nowhere.