Mexico’s coolest designers take over a bright red mansion

Furniture gallery Masa transformed a 1970s mansion into a showroom for contemporary Mexican design

By Liz Stinson Mar 29, 2019, 4:00pm EDT

A living area where the floors and ceiling are painted red. There is a white table in the middle of the red room.

A mansion swathed in red paint and fabric is hardly what you think of when you hear gallery, and yet, that’s exactly where an exhibition from new furniture gallery Masa is popping up. For its inaugural “Collective/Collectible” show, Masa set up shop in an abandoned 1970s-era Mexico City mansion and filled it with furniture from the likes of sculptor Jose Dávila, architect Frida Escobedo, and artist Pedro Reyes.

A room with red walls and red floors. A group of black stools is on the floor. There is a white staircase with black steps against one of the walls.

A room with red walls and floors. There is a solitary stool that is sitting in the sunlight streaming in from one window.

Like other shoppable residential experiences, Masa’s home-meets-gallery spreads works throughout the house. A marble-topped table from Dávila sits out on the grass; an architectural chair from Escobedo is framed by two open curtains; Reyes’s two onyx terrazzo chairs sit at the bottom of a very majestic staircase.

A room with red carpet and painted red walls. There are two terrazzo chairs in the room.

And yet, you can tell the experience is more art than functional design. Maybe it’s the all-red everything, but it’s an eye-popping, and provocative arrangement for some very cool contemporary wares.

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Mexico’s coolest designers take over a bright red mansion

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