Clay tile headboard, according to Júlia Brunet
The interior design studio Júlia Brunet uses our Mondrian set to make a clay tile headboard
In a renovated barn that is a wonder wherever you look at it, we found an original use of our Mondrian set, one of our combined formats, in the Antique White shade. This is a clay tile headboard that the Catalan interior designers at Júlia Brunet used in a dreamy vaulted bedroom.
The space in which this peculiar choice is framed is magical in itself. It makes perfect sense that the headboard was equally unexpected. By using our tiles for the half of the wall that houses the head of the double bed, you protect the rustic, cozy atmosphere that envelops the entire rest of the home, but provide a vibrant, modern yet understated stylistic element.
Beyond decoration: the functionality of a terracotta wall mural
Normally, we put headboards on our beds to separate the sleeping space from the wall, to create aesthetic harmony, or to have extra space for body support or storage.
In the case of this headboard, all those functions are fulfilled, but with an added extra. In most modern homes these functionalities are an aesthetic choice, but in this case, it was an unavoidable necessity. As can be seen in the photos, the room (and the rest of the house) is an old renovated barn. As the studio explains, practically the only thing that remains of the original structure are the stone walls.
The imperative, therefore, to create a separation between the bed and the rough stone wall is not only aesthetic, but functional. The studio has solved it with a half-height wall that reaches up to the frame of the only window in the room, which serves as a shelf at the top and as a headboard on the wall with our Mondrian above it.
Other advantages: cleanliness, ambivalence, and characteristics of terracotta
In addition to those mentioned above, there are other advantages to this terracotta headboard. The first one we mentioned, following on from the previous point, is that the fact that the headboard is a wall frees up the use of the room. If in the future you want to change the functionality of the room and turn it into another type of space, the terracotta headboard becomes something else. It can be the wall of an office, a children’s room or a library and still work perfectly.
In addition to this aesthetic versatility, using a clay tile headboard has the advantage of easy cleaning and low maintenance, and all the positive characteristics that terracotta lends to the buildings it inhabits: it supports the thermal comfort of dwellings, helps regulate humidity, and is a sustainable, durable and environmentally friendly material. Truth be told, we know of few more deserving headboards.
