Ana Topoleanu

Dec 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Suleman Anaya |Ana Topoleanu

JOSÉ LEÓN CERRILLO never thought he'd live in a French-style turn-of-the-20th-century townhouse. For nearly 15 years, the 48-year-old Mexican artist had rented a boxy midcentury dwelling in Mexico City's quiet Anzures neighborhood that'd proved the perfect background to his Modernist-leaning geometric installations. After its owner declined to sell the property, Cerrillo spent years looking for something similar.

May 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Snyder |Ana Topoleanu

BEFORE THEY STARTED building Casa Pitaya, a country house on the rainy western slopes of the Ecuadorean Andes, the architects José María Sáez, Florencia Sobrero and Martín Real presented their clients with an image that would guide them through two years of design and construction: a rusted-out car submerged in water, its frame overtaken by coral.

Nov 8, 2023 | nytimes.com | Michael Snyder |Ana Topoleanu

The sunken living room, and its sculptural concrete ceiling, inside Jorge Zalszupin's family beach house, built in Guarujá, Brazil, in 1972. Credit... Ana Topoleanu How a handful of organic 20th-century homes by the architect Jorge Zalszupin came to redefine Modernist design. The sunken living room, and its sculptural concrete ceiling, inside Jorge Zalszupin's family beach house, built in Guarujá, Brazil, in 1972. Credit...

Oct 16, 2023 | nyti.ms | Suleman Anaya |Ana Topoleanu

T Magazine|A Tequila Distiller Turns a House into a Showcase for Mexican Designhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/t-magazine/san-miguel-de-allende-casa-dragones.htmlIN 2008, WHEN the marketing executive Bertha González Nieves began brainstorming with the MTV creator Bob Pittman on what would become their cult tequila brand, Casa Dragones, she often stayed at the guesthouse he kept not far from his hillside estate in San Miguel de Allende, about 170 miles northwest of Mexico City.

Oct 16, 2023 | nyti.ms | Suleman Anaya |Ana Topoleanu

T Magazine|A Tequila Distiller Turns a House into a Showcase for Mexican Designhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/t-magazine/san-miguel-de-allende-casa-dragones.htmlIN 2008, WHEN the marketing executive Bertha González Nieves began brainstorming with the MTV creator Bob Pittman on what would become their cult tequila brand, Casa Dragones, she often stayed at the guesthouse he kept not far from his hillside estate in San Miguel de Allende, about 170 miles northwest of Mexico City.