The Mesonia House Conquers Design's Fear of Color in the Heart of Mexico
The Mestiz-designed project in San Miguel de Allende, bursts with exuberant color and textured handcrafts from floor to ceiling.
Summary
- Mestiz has unveiled Mesonia, a colorful one-bedroom guesthouse located in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The completely hand-crafted suite was designed by the Mestiz team with the help of skilled Mexican artisans, integrating the country’s traditional arts and crafts into the bold design.
Mexican design studio Mestiz has unveiled a striking “handcrafted” guest house in San Miguel de Allende, realizing founder Daniel Valero’s vision of creating every detail for a space from the walls, doors, furniture, tableware, textiles, lamps, tiles, and more.
Flooded with saturated hues and traditional crafts by artisans across the country, the one-bedroom Mesonia guest house captures the vibrant essence of Mexico’s culture.
The resulting design challenges the austerity of Modernism and the neutrality of contemporary residential spaces with organic materials and bold color choices ranging from magenta, sky blue, kelly green, and bright red. Glossy sky blue floors and matching walls contrast with the warm wooden ceilings boasting rustic beams, while a red shiplap headboard doubles as an accent wall. The scalloped details above the bed are woven throughout the space on the red bed frame, the green sideboard, and various wooden furniture pieces.
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San Miguel de Allende’s woodworkers carved, tinted, turned, and assembled furnishings by hand, rooting the space in the region’s carpentry traditions. Stand-out case goods include a green bistro table covered in thorns at the base and scalloped around the top; a textured red side table carved into a flower-like shape.
Cutting through the high-saturation hues, earthy tones ground the suite in the natural beauty of Mexico’s terrain. Mestiz’s glossy brown tiles clad the mantle and the en-suite bathroom, and tan wicker is the medium for a statement armchair and stepped dinette benches.
See the gallery above for a closer look at the Mesonia Guest House by Mestiz. Interested parties can visit the official Mesonia site for booking information.
