Susanna Cots
M001686
Spain / Interior Design
To understand complexity and make it simple and timeless. This is the core idea of the studio led by Susanna Cots, who innately designs spaces that make borders and contrasts invisible and balances all the elements of good design making it comfortable. White as a concept, starting point and lifestyle. Emotions and the philosophy of Slow Design are at the root of the essence of every project. Balance is created between space and emotion, visual comfort is perceived naturally and seamlessly. Comfort appears quite simply. Design becomes emotion. Interior Design becomes personified.
Her projects awaken the expression of order, visual comfort and clarity. A combination in which playing with volumes, stylized lines and white as maximum inspiration, creates a soft explosion. The result is always a sensitive design. Impassioned by change that lasts through time, understandable metaphors, and comfortable contrast, Susanna Cots has been designing spaces and everything capable of being designed for 15 years. Her simplicity and consistency have moved her into pole position in the ephemeral world of design.
In 2001 decides to found her own design studio, formed by a team of creative people related through different fields of design. Her projects embrace both the commercial and private spheres. Due to the volume of international orders, in 2010 the studio decides to be present in Barcelona and in 2013 in Girona as well. In 2014 Susanna Cots opens her first international office in Hong Kong. Her work has been recognized in publications nationally and internationally in over 30 nations and is present in some universities across the country.
It has been definitively consolidated into the international scene through the recognition of prestigious awards: winner of the 2013 International IDEA Tops Awards in Shenzhen (China), finalist in the 2012 International IDEA Tops Awards (Shenzhen), finalist in the 2012 SBID International Design Awards (London), finalist in the 2011 SBID International Design Awards in (London), finalist in the 2010 Architecture and Interior Design Porcelanosa Awards (Spain), shortlisted in the 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair Awards (New York), finalist in the 2005 FAD Interior Awards in (Barcelona). After more than a decade accumulating experience, knowledge and sensations, Susanna Cots has a curriculum that allows her to talk about Emotional Interior Design and Slow Design in any format, from opinions in specialized publications to professional lectures. Currently dedicating part of her time to talks in multidisciplinary creative circles, she is also often a guest speaker at Design Trade Shows or Design Weeks and at national and international universities. Susanna Cots’ Studio is an honorary member of SBID The Society of British Interior Design and of the Colegio de Decoradores de Colombia. Susanna Cots is member of ADP Board of Directors -Professional Designers Association- and member of BCD Businesses Club -Barcelona Design Center.
Portfolio
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Back to Light- Barcelona
Weightless concrete. Steeled glass. Cubes that levitate and take part in the social and family life of this home where sharing is the leitmotif that pervades the design. Space imbued with light that accentuates the solidity of black, the colour that forges an infinite alliance with white.
This is the most mature and daring design of interior architect Susanna Cots, but it is also the truest to her core values. She maintains the pure essence of her principles and her style ratifies afresh the timelessness that enables her designs to endure, to be remembered, to be needed.
The starting point is an easily reconciled oxymoron: a dark penthouse located in a busy part of Barcelona that desired a much more open and active internal transit. And above all… tons of light. So we opened generous windows on the patio and towards the street and the space was flooded with a light that we began to fill with symmetries and cubes.
The pièce de résistance of this approach is undoubtedly the kitchen, designed to lodge a transparent core of social and family life. It is contained in a glass cube with mutually aligned sliding glass doors that symbolise aperture. This cube is accompanied by a wet area finished in dark grey microcement that contains, on the one hand, a courtesy toilet and on the other the laundry area.
The kitchen is embraced by a skin of white cladding where all the bedrooms are concealed, creating a private and separate ambience between the social area and the most intimate family core. Here we find the children’s rooms, grouped symmetrically in twos and sharing a common visual harmony. Each pair is united by a wet / play area.
The master suite opens to the outside with a large window and the interior dispenses with isolating partition walls, opting for glass as the separation/union between bedroom, walk-in and bathroom.
Finally, the living room and reading and study area melts into the exterior thanks to the enormous opening that lets the light flood in to accentuate the contrast between the white interior and the metallic black of the patio. The terrace is designed as the second great social core. It features a waterfall fountain that brings nature into the middle of the city. -
Family Hub- Barcelona
Family Hub- Barcelona
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Apartment T – Donostia
Apartment T – Donostia
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Maison de Vacances – Barcelona
Maison de Vacances – Barcelona
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One Wave – Barcelona
One Wave – Barcelona
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Oxygen – Costa Brava – Girona
Oxygen – Costa Brava – Girona
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Mediterranean Pace – Costa Brava Spain
Mediterranean Pace – Costa Brava Spain
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Urban White – Barcelona
Urban White – Barcelona
