Winding through the rolling hills of Ibiza by car, Stefan Brüggemann's house can be seen from afar like a mirage. With an exterior clad entirely in silver foil, and a living room finished in gold leaf, the brutalist house - designed by Alberto Kalach - is an astonishing total work of art... an outdoor pavilion designed to showcase just one of the artist's paintings. Even a functional air vent, located on the drive, is finished in silver foil, the sparkling fronds rippling delicately in the wind.
And just like the Mexican conceptual artist's work, which utilises text, spray paint, neon light signs, gold leaf, wood and marble, the house is indulgent yet ascetic; brazen in intent but delicately finished. 'I usually work very fast - when I start a work I finish it that day - and this project was the opposite,' says Brüggemann, who now splits his time between Ibiza, London, and Mexico City.
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