City Escape

At Cidade Matarazzo, within the Rosewood São Paulo complex, in a tower designed by Jean Nouvel, Sig Bergamin and Murilo Lomas conceive a penthouse as an exercise in spatial curation. The intervention merges multiple units into a single narrative and asserts the designers’ signature without competing with the building’s architecture. Interior and exterior read as one continuous setting, with greenery as frame and counterpoint. The living room begins with the curved gesture of a Giuseppe Scapinelli sofa, which organizes circulation and sets the pace. From there, the project is anchored in Brazilian modernism, treated as structure rather than collection, with pieces by Joaquim Tenreiro, Sergio Rodrigues, and Zanine Caldas, among others. Brazilian identity appears less as theme and more as method: wood, proportion, craftsmanship, and an unforced sense of comfort. Contemporary Brazilian art acts as visual architecture, creating focus and pause. In the dining room, the Nina table by Vermeil anchors the composition, while chairs and lighting hold the scene with restraint. Between living and dining, a Cristallo Venato counter designed by Sig acts as a mineral threshold. Outdoors, the terrace reinforces the idea of an elevated retreat, with the Loop lounge chair by Willy Guhl as an accent. A spiral staircase, finished in bronze paint and lit by fixtures by Jorge Pardo, turns circulation into a journey, stitching the penthouse together as a curatorial sequence.