Developed as a single-ownership project intended as a primary residence, this renovation evolved through collaboration, shaped by place, process, and the presence of art.
- 1. Grounded in Place
- 2. A Collaborative Approach
- 3. The Apartment Before Renovation
- 4. In Conversation with the Artist
Grounded in Place
Set within a city of Spain’s Cádiz Province, this full-floor apartment spans 300 square meters and occupies the top level of a residential building along the main avenue, just minutes from the historic center and immersed in the everyday rhythm of local cafés and shops.
Conceived as a single-ownership project, the renovation was shaped by the way the home is lived in day to day. The owners favored a minimal, uncluttered sensibility, prioritizing light, openness, and a sense of ease. Finishes were selected to remain quiet and recessive, creating an atmosphere that feels calm, considered, and genuinely lived in.
In addition to the main living spaces, the apartment includes four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, a home gym, and a dedicated laundry room, all organized across a single full-floor layout.
A Collaborative Approach
From the outset, the intention was to work with a single artist across the entire project. Consistency mattered, and the home called for work that shared the same restraint and clarity guiding the renovation: attentive to detail without excess.
The project ultimately brought together Casera’s renovation approach with the work of Marcus Cederberg, a photographic artist whose images explore repetition, stillness, and observation.
Art was placed with intention. The aim was not to create focal points, but moments, where image and space sit alongside one another, each informing how the other is experienced. Even the television is treated as part of the composition, displaying a digital work by the artist when not in use, so the main living space never resolves into a blank screen.
The Apartment Before Renovation
These images show the apartment as it existed prior to renovation, offering context for the project’s starting point.
In Conversation with the Artist
Photographic artist Marcus Cederberg is known for a visual language rooted in repetition, geometry, and stillness, capturing architecture and objects with a quiet sense of observation.
In conversation with Casera, he reflects on how images inhabit domestic space and how place shapes the way he sees and photographs the built environment.
Q. Your work often focuses on quiet details and repetition. What draws you to these moments in architecture?
A. For me as a minimalist photographer, I try to tell as much as possible with as less as possible, and create my works by searching for calming and soothing motifs with few items, negative space or deviations in a pattern.
Q. How do you think about your images living within a domestic space, rather than in a gallery or exhibition setting?
A. I love that thought! So many people have given me feedback that they find my pictures calming, and the thought of bringing that feeling to any domestic space feels very nice.
Q. As an artist, how does your relationship to an image change when it’s something you live with, rather than something you view momentarily?
A. I have some of my works in my house and living with them on a daily basis make me both find new details in them but also give inspiration to new motifs or changing the existing ones.
Q. Restraint plays a role in both your work and this space. What does restraint allow for creatively?
A. What an interesting question, I think restraint allows my creativity to be both prudent and precise, meaning that I as a minimalist photographer try, in opposite of many other photographers, to take as much as possible out of the frame. But also, by doing that, the motif still has to be interesting for the viewer to look at and reflect over.
Q. Are there places, building types, or details you feel especially drawn to photographing next? Is southern Spain a place that interests you?
A. Yes, places with colors. I love the often colorful houses typical for the Mediterranean areas, in combination with expressive windows. So yes southern Spain is on my list to visit, would love to go there!
Photographic works by Marcus Cederberg.
@marcuscederberg