My Top 5 Mags: Omar, Nacho and Marco from Apartamento

Take a deep breath. It’s arrived. Issue #05 of Apartamento has just landed and is now available all six of our stores across Australia and New Zealand. (Yeah, we know. Finally!)

We love this magazine. And, as evidenced by the veritable avalanche of calls, e-mails, tweets, texts, telegrams and carrier pigeons that we receive in the lead up to the release of every issue, it looks like you guys are pretty fond of it as well. And if you’ve managed to somehow avoid crossing paths with this mag (which is actually pretty easy, because it generally sells out in a day or two) then allow us to introduce you:

Founded by Omar Sosa, Nacho Alegre and Marco Velardi in Barcelona two years ago, Apartamento is the world’s first ‘everyday interiors’ magazine. Which is to say, it’s an interiors magazine about real people living in real houses that don’t necessaily look like spaceships, aren’t set into the side of a mountain in rural Switzerland, probably don’t have infinity lap pools and might not have even been designed by real architects.

More than gleaming white cubes and perfectly manicured lawns, Apartamento is a magazine about space and the way that people occupy it.

This latest issue has features on an allotment for growing fruit and vegetables in Sweden, an amazing book-filled lair in Barcelona’s Raval district, Lovefoxxx from CSS talking about her Såo Paulo apartment (“This is the first time I’ve had a home of my own. I rule this motherfucking place.”) and an article on French architects Jean Renaudie’s post-war social housing blocks in the suburbs of Paris.

Subscribers, we’ll be sending your copies out first thing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, we’ve got the editors of Apartamento choosing their top five favourites magazines for your reading pleasure…

1. 032c

Almost 10 years on the run and probably one of the magazines that will be remembered the most from the beginning of this century.

2. Financial Times Weekend

All Sunday papers should look at the Financial Times Weekend edition with the Arts & Leisure and House & Home supplements.

3. Acne Paper

Amazing layout and well curated editorial that makes you wish more brands had such taste in print.

4. Purple Fashion

Purple is one of those magazines you can’t keep your eyes off, no matter what shape or form it will take next.

5. Casa Vogue

An ode to decadence and impossible style, mixing the worst with the most exquisite taste, this is the only interior magazine we must bow to.

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