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Working moms & luxury real estate with Catalina Sauma

A brief interview (in Spanish) with Catalina Sauma. Cata offers her point of view of work-life balance, her hobbies, and insight into the luxury residentail…

Design & Finishes

Santos: unique furnitures tailored for local markets

Furnitures made by Santos, have a unique feature that makes them one of a kind, it is the fact that the brand produces them according…

Design & Finishes

Santos, Ondarreta and Novamobili

Santos, Ondarreta and Novamobili, three brands to know for interior design. Apart from the traditional Santos kitchen furniture, the Spanish Ondarreta and the Italian Novamobili…

Design & Finishes

María del Mar Echeverría: Simplicity begets elegance

The LX team talks with entrepreneur María del Mar Echeverría, founder of the MARE Design Center in Costa Rica about the Costa Rica market, interior…

Architecture & Construction

Who is SARCO Architects?

SARCO Architects is a small-sized boutique, luxury high-end architectural design firm based in San José, Costa Rica. The firm works internationally, on projects throughout the…

Architecture & Construction

The history of SARCO Architects

The history of SARCO Architects goes back to Roderick Anderson, a second-generation architect whose father was the original founder of the firm. He worked for…

Architecture & Construction

The story behind Gaviota Simbac Costa Rica

María Galera is the executive director of Gaviota Simbac in Costa Rica. Gaviota Simbac is mainly a developer and manufacturer of solar protection products. Solar…

Art

About Carolina Guillermet’s exhibition

Carolina Guillermet is a visual artist and in the video she shows her most recent exhibition at the Calderón Guardia museum. The exhibition is called…

Art

Artistic motivations with Carolina Guillermet

Artistic motivations behind Carolina Guillermet‘s body of art. Landscape and urban spaces interest her a lot and to an extent architecture. In her pictorial works,…

Escazú & Santa Ana