Mediterranean-style interiors for Miami homes

Miami's older neighborhoods speak a Mediterranean language. Coral Gables was planned in the 1920s almost entirely in the Mediterranean Revival style, and the same stucco, barrel tile and loggias run through Miami Beach and Coconut Grove. Atelier Cantera designs the interiors of these houses, and of the condominiums around them, from Paris and Mexico City, for owners who often live in another country.

Atelier Cantera was founded in 2024 by Gabriel Chaussée Jiménez and William Wu, one in Paris, the other in Shanghai. French-Mexican, trained at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, Gabriel worked on prestige hospitality projects internationally and practiced in Japan before founding the studio. He now works between the cut stone of Parisian buildings and the volcanic cantera of Mexican houses, from which the studio takes its name.

The studio asserts a sober hand, born of a dialogue between three building cultures that do not resemble one another but answer one another: the rigor of French construction, the mineral presence of Mexican architecture, the precision of Chinese workshops. From it comes a taste for materials both raw and refined, and an attention to volume, proportion and light.

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