Patricia Urquiola Designs the Kalida Sant Pau Center for Cancer Patients
The K"lida Sant Pau center was designed for cancer patients to receive care in an environment that's cozy and comfortable.
Recently opened in Barcelona, the K?lida Sant Pau center is a place for cancer patients, along with their family and friends, to receive oncological care in an environment that’s cozy, comfortable, and bound to encourage healing. Architect Benedetta Tagliabue, who designed the building, partnered with designer Patricia Urquiola and her team to create a space that felt more residential than clinical.
The center’s ethos perfectly aligns with Urquiola’s design principle ? “to create spaces where people feel comfortable and live better” ? which made the Spanish designer the ideal person to take on the project. She sought brands that believed in the mission to donate products to be used within the space, including her own work, the Mangas Original and Mangas Space, from GAN.
Lighting brand Marset donated lamps, including the Cala floor lamp designed by Joan Gaspar.
Throughout the center, various vignettes of seating wait to host visitors with Mangas rugs grounding the spaces and adding warmth. The wool rugs make for cozy areas, as they were intended since they were inspired by handmade wool sweaters that everyone’s grandmother used to knit.
The Mangas collection is known for having organic shapes and with the hand-loomed textures, the sweater-inspired rugs give nod to childhood when being cared for was t...
Recently opened in Barcelona, the K?lida Sant Pau center is a place for cancer patients, along with their family and friends, to receive oncological care in an environment that’s cozy, comfortable, and bound to encourage healing. Architect Benedetta Tagliabue, who designed the building, partnered with designer Patricia Urquiola and her team to create a space that felt more residential than clinical.
The center’s ethos perfectly aligns with Urquiola’s design principle ? “to create spaces where people feel comfortable and live better” ? which made the Spanish designer the ideal person to take on the project. She sought brands that believed in the mission to donate products to be used within the space, including her own work, the Mangas Original and Mangas Space, from GAN.
Lighting brand Marset donated lamps, including the Cala floor lamp designed by Joan Gaspar.
Throughout the center, various vignettes of seating wait to host visitors with Mangas rugs grounding the spaces and adding warmth. The wool rugs make for cozy areas, as they were intended since they were inspired by handmade wool sweaters that everyone’s grandmother used to knit.
The Mangas collection is known for having organic shapes and with the hand-loomed textures, the sweater-inspired rugs give nod to childhood when being cared for was t...
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