I Live Here

Barcelona-based Apartamento is a different sort of interiors magazine, one absent of the pompous gloss and unrealistically tidy bedrooms typically captured by Conde Nast lenses. Instead, Apartamento does something so simple and desirable that you can’t believe it hasn’t been done before: Using honest photography, they show you the insides of homes around the world owned by interesting creative luminaries.

Alongside the photos, Apartamento mixes in thoughtful essays and interviews on what it means to live in a space, a place, an area, a city. “The concept of home as a canvas, a blank page on which to leave traces of our lives and selves, is at the core of Apartamento’s philosophy,” says editor Marco Velardi (who runs the magazine along with graphic designer Omar Sosa and photographer Nacho Alegre). “The acquisition of personal space marks the beginning of one’s adult life, of the construction and assertion of the ‘I.’ Apartamento wants to document this journey in all its different phases by focusing on environments that tell real stories.”