This loft conversion in Frauenstraße in the heart of Munich is special not only because of the harmonious material and form design as well as the high-quality finish - it lies above all in the detail: flush-fitting doors from the design door manufacturer Eber from Nördlingen blend into the wall design as if in one piece. The frames and door hinges disappear into the walls and create homogeneous areas without any disruptive visible elements. Thomas Eber, the fourth-generation owner of the company, not only produces these sophisticated, made-to-measure doors, but also offers high-quality interior design concepts tailored to all room situations, including fitted kitchens and contract construction.

This was also the case for the private client, who created his new refuge here with his family. By combining two apartments on the 5th floor of a residential building, a spacious penthouse was created - including two outdoor seating areas with lush greenery and a further living level directly below the roof. The two residential units are connected via a kind of "tunnel" - a dark passageway area that offers additional storage space thanks to built-in cupboards and wall cladding in sandblasted pine stained in the color mystic brown. Custom-made, floor-to-ceiling aluminum sliding windows and the generously proportioned gable windows allow plenty of light into the elegantly furnished apartment by Liaigre Interior Design. There are two "bunks" under the roof peak, which are accessed via a simple staircase designed by Eber. The purist white color concept is complemented by a few very unusual materials that set accents - such as black steel on the stairs to the attic, burnished brass for the door handles and handle shells, the radiator panels and the shelves or highly polished smoked eucalyptus for the built-in furniture in the bathroom, for example. The kitchen block in front of the spacious open kitchen is also special in terms of its materiality. After initially considering tombac sheet, burnished brass or black steel, the choice finally fell on hot-rolled stainless steel sheet, glass bead blasted and with a slight streak structure - a very easy-care and robust material that provides an interesting counterpoint to the dark smoked oak kitchen fronts. The biggest challenge of the project was the actual completion: the fixtures, such as the kitchen block and the built-in cupboards, which were manufactured according to millimeter-precise 3D measurements, were pre-assembled and loaded onto pallets in Eber's Nördlingen workshop due to the tightness of the stairwell and elevator. An 80-ton crane then hoisted them onto the apartment's open-air seating area for installation.

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Christopher Philadelphia
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(Published in CUBE Munich 02|21)