Santiago Nin | Absolute calmness

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Having spent more than twenty-five years in the design world and in the interior design industry, Santiago Nin Klaebisch is more than a national or international referent.

His projects, which cover different space types, respond to an “intense and intuitive” style that highlights the “sobriety in forms and lines, appealing to their purification and simplification”.

The compensation between cold and warm elements, the reinterpretation of spaces in order to achieve a balance between elegance and timelessness, the use of natural materials such as wood or stone, are just a sample of the preferences and choices of this designer when it comes to putting his knowledge into practice, while expressing all his wealth of knowledge.

Far from being imposing, this wealth lets him establish a perfect conjunction with the personality and habits of his clients, taking into account the characteristics of the project he has to face up to in each case.

“Although the power of comfort and functionality weigh heavily upon all of them, a difference must be done between a domestic project and a markedly commercial one. The latter, for example, pays more attention to the mise en scene, creating more dynamic, attractive and suggestive spaces”, he says.

This designer, together with the large team of professionals that make up his studio in Barcelona, also creates his own designs for furniture, lighting and even home accessories.

These are just some of the touches which define Santiago Nin’s work: sober and purified, far from those superfluous elements that “suffocate the space”. This is a kind of decoration in which “shiny brass fittings, lace curtains or stippled-finish paint,” are completely out of place. We are before a serene aesthetic, with a certain preference for everything that reminisces about the forties and fifties in the last century.

Certainly, an elegant style that moves us straightaway.

Text by Laura Soto
Translation By Verónica Arroyo