Casa Decor 2022: a journey through the senses

Now in its 30th year, Casa Decor wows us with its proposals once again in 2022. This time, the prestigious event takes the visitor on a journey for the senses through a range of spaces designed by more than a hundred interior designers. A journey that invites visitors to let their senses run wild, immersing themselves completely in the homes of the future.

Staged over the six floors of the building hosting this year's event, located in Madrid's prestigious Salamanca neighbourhood, the Casa Decor journey guides us though an eclectic range of surprising spaces. Even the staircases linking the various floors hint at the surprises to come, with a combination of wallpaper and sounds enticing the visitor into each of the planet's different ecosystems, from the lushest forest to the deepest ocean...

Each of the 57 spaces comprising this year's event has its own story and showcases an innovative room concept. Showstoppers include apartment designs by Héctor Ruiz Velázquez and Andreína Raventós, where a neat, orderly aesthetic coupled with exquisite design are the order of the day.

Using the available space to its fullest advantage, Héctor Ruiz Velázquez delivers an office, kitchen, bathroom, living space and gym in 45 sqm. This project envisages a whole new reality, where multi-functional homes feature living, moving spaces.

Andreína Raventós created a ‘modern cave’ equipped with furniture fashioned from lime mortar, textiles and clay walls. Her project comprises various spaces, including a social area, a workstation and a kitchen, blending neutral materials with organic shapes in a perfect demonstration of how to bring nature and sustainability to the home.

Deluxe bathrooms and endless kitchen countertops

Bathrooms also had their time to shine, with baths, basins and showers of every description to take the visitor through a series of different experiences. This creative, futuristic design by Virginia Sánchez, for example, foregrounds vibrant colour, texture and shape.

To showcase this unique and original 180º shower, design studio Espejo & Goyanes crafted a space with an arched ceiling and spectacular limestone flooring and plinths in highly-appealing muted tones.

Kitchens were another star of this year's show Endless countertops affording combined kitchen and dining space, in a range of colours and materials, where cutting-edge appliances also feature prominently. Sixty Pro revealed a design based on the Japanese philosophy of Godai, which says that the five elements of nature – earth, water, fire, wind and void – should all be held at the heart of our lives, and of course, our kitchens.

Spaces to unwind

The event did not disappoint when it came to living rooms either, with the perfect sofas to relax and unwind or even indulge in a nap. This extraordinary example by Natuzzi is inspired by the budding flowers of a plant, and features in the space entitled ‘The apartment’ designed by Manuel Espejo.

A range of other spaces to kick back and take a break were also on show at Casa Decor 2022, including this home cinema by Bang & Olufsen, boasting an impressive screen which appears to emerge from two wooden speakers, and the sensory experience ‘Unexpected hammam’, inspired by water and depth of space and created by Summum Studio.

Many of the spaces on display this year featured their own soundtracks and even a signature scent, fully submerging the visitor in the journey through the senses we refer to above. The elegant fireplace which dominates this space by María Querencia and Maribel López, for example, fills the whole room with the sweet scent of jasmine.

There was plenty of promising new talent at the show too, with cutting-edge, high-level designs by students on the Undergraduate and Master’s Degrees in Interior Design at Madrid's ESNE School of Design. This organic, futuristic space plunges the visitor into an immersive, tech-centric experience.