Casa Son Vida: Marcel Wanders’ Sculptural Mallorca Interior
Completed in 2009 for a private client in Mallorca, Casa Son Vida brings a highly sculptural approach to domestic space. Marcel Wanders’ interior occupies an 850-square-metre residence, combining curved white surfaces with dark furnishings, concentrated colour and richly patterned rooms. The project’s photographs reveal how these contrasts work at the scale of a wall, a piece of furniture and a single decorative detail.
Red seating provides a vivid focal point within the curved living room. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
White surfaces, vivid interruptions
In the living room, horizontal bands sweep along the walls and follow the room’s curve. A circular arrangement of red seating stands against this pale enclosure, while an adjacent group of lighter sofas offers a different scale of gathering. A narrow strip of high-level glazing draws daylight along the wall. Glass balustrades keep the changes in level visible without introducing another opaque surface.
Glass balustrades keep the living and dining levels visually connected. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
Elsewhere, a white tree-like form branches across the ceiling above a dark floor. Its rounded limbs repeat the house’s interest in curves, but translate it into an immediately recognisable natural shape. Seen alongside the living room, it shows how Wanders uses large sculptural gestures to give individual spaces their own character within the predominantly white interior.
A branching white form gives the Tree of Life space its sculptural identity. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
The dining room and kitchen
The dining area is organised around a dark table and high-backed chairs beneath an elaborate black chandelier. Full-height glazing opens the view toward planting outside, while the pale floor reflects the furniture and light. The contrast is direct: a compact, dark dining group sits within a bright architectural setting. Decorative objects and a long cabinet introduce smaller points of interest around its edges.
Dark dining furniture and a black chandelier contrast with the pale interior. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
In the kitchen, a white island stands opposite dark cabinetry with a pronounced horizontal profile. The view continues toward the dining table, linking the preparation area with the room beyond. The official project material identifies bespoke pieces and furnishings from Marcel Wanders, Poliform, Cappellini, Moooi, Baccarat and Bisazza among the elements brought together throughout the house.
The kitchen opens toward the dining area and its black chandelier. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
Pattern in the private rooms
The bathrooms introduce some of the project’s strongest changes in colour and texture. In one room, yellow-and-black decorative surfaces extend behind a pair of mirrors and basins, beside a rounded gold-toned enclosure. The arrangement makes pattern a substantial part of the room rather than a small accessory. Other views return to white fixtures, reflective surfaces and a more restrained palette.
Pattern and a gold-toned curved enclosure define this bathroom composition. Casa son Vida, an iconic interior by Marcel Wanders, 2009. Image: Marcel Wanders studio.
The main bedroom continues that quieter register, with low white furnishings, tall sheer curtains and a sculptural partition containing a recessed light. Across the residence, ornament is distributed unevenly and deliberately: an intense surface in one room gives way to a broad white plane in another. Casa Son Vida’s distinctive character emerges from that changing rhythm of relief, colour and scale.
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