Design firms are rarely commissioned to create an actual fun house not an amusement park attraction nor a McMansion dedicated to making content for TikTok, but rather a family home meant for socializing in style. But that was precisely the brief given to Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado, the duo behind the Madrid-based interior design studio Casa Muñoz, for a four-story townhouse in the old port of Ibiza, Spain.
The clients, a Spanish-English couple with teenage children, have owned a larger home on a seaside corner of the Balearic island on which they've summered for nearly 20 years. For this centrally located pied-à-terre, they were after a completely different vibe, a chic bolt-hole where their kids could pile in with friends after a night out without anyone having to drive. It would provide the parents peace of mind and a place to come off-season for sunny weekends without the hassles of opening a larger house.
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