Blue leopards and bright colour refresh a Bogotá penthouse
Veronica Mishaan has given a 580-square-metre penthouse in Bogotá, Colombia, a full refresh built around bright colour and animal print.
The project was reported by Dezeen on 15 September. It keeps a 30-year-old collection of art and antiques in place. Bold new finishes sit alongside it.
The brief was practical. The flat needed to work for family life and for hosting guests. It also needed to preserve and display what the clients already owned.
Mishaan said the aim was to keep the essence of the space and 30 years of memories while updating colours, materials and layout. That balance drives the whole scheme. Nothing was stripped back to a blank box.
The setting shapes the palette. The apartment looks out over Bogotá's greenery and mountainscape. Floral motifs, foliage tones and custom oak floors and finishes frame those views and bring the outdoors inside.
Guests arrive through a double-height entrance. It holds a porcelain pendant by Elsa Foulon and a staircase with a cast bronze railing. From there, the living room and circulation spaces are finished in smooth marmorino plaster, a lime-based coating polished flat, used here as a quiet backdrop for art.
The first living area layers old and new. An antique Aubusson rug, named for the French town known for woven tapestries, sits under a custom wool bouclé sofa from Lee Jofa, bouclé meaning a yarn with a looped texture. Donzella mid-century armchairs complete the seating, alongside artwork by Peter Halley.
Colour deepens in the office. Original built-in bookcases and panelling were lacquered in deep blue. They are paired with a blue-leopard carpet from Stark. Elsewhere, grasscloth wallpaper, a wall covering woven from natural fibres, runs through the dining room, primary bedroom and family room.
The primary bedroom uses wallpaper by Phillip Jeffries in rich indigo with pale blossoms. The bathrooms turn pale pink, with patterned tiles in zellige, travertine and marble, zellige being hand-cut glazed tiles. The original hand-painted sinks were kept.
What makes this stand out is the restraint underneath the pattern. Thirty years were not cleared out. They were recoloured around.
