Design Hunter México gave Casa Paros a feature in its Casas section under the title El lujo silencioso de lo hecho a mano — the quiet luxury of the handmade. Words by David Solís, photography by Tomas Laffaye.
Where other coverage of the house has followed its Mediterranean-Baja architecture, Solís went after the making of it. That makes this the most detailed published account of how the studio actually works.
Every piece in the house — furniture, lighting, textiles — was designed for it. The teak was worked by family workshops in Miraflores. The woven lamps came from La Paz, the embroidery from Cerritos, the ceramics from Todos Santos. Natural pigments, plant fibres and volcanic stone carry the palette; polished concrete runs underneath it all as the surface that ties the rooms together.
More than 75% of the materials came from within a short radius of the site. As Solís notes, that was an ethical decision rather than a sustainability claim — it avoided needless carbon, and it put the work into local workshops. Where a skill did not exist in the state, we went to Oaxaca and Guadalajara, and nowhere else.
Two lines from the piece say it better than we can. “Es una casa que se construye con tiempo, con historia, con alma” — a house built with time, with history, with soul. And: “Aquí, cada rincón es una conversación entre luz, materia y silencio” — here, every corner is a conversation between light, matter and silence.
Solís records the practical difficulty honestly, too: water scarcity, logistics, materials that simply are not available in Baja California Sur. The house has two bedrooms, a separate guest casita, a carpentry workshop in the garage because the owners work with their hands, a swim pool planted with endemic species, and a rooftop fire pit facing the Pacific. Every zone was designed to be used rather than admired.
The measure of success, as Hillary puts it in the article, is not a visitor saying “what a beautiful house” — it is a visitor saying “I want to stay here.”
See the project in full on the Paros House portfolio page, or read Aspire Metro’s feature on the same house. The sourcing behind it is described under Mexican furniture sourcing, and the wider tradition it draws on in our guide to Mexican interior design.
Feature: Design Hunter México, Casas. Words: David Solís. Photography: Tomas Laffaye.