Lake Refuge, Rio de Janeiro / Leila Dionizios
Comfort and well-being in contact with nature: this is the proposal of Lake Refuge, an 80m² space designed by architect Leila Dionizios in her 5th participation in the CasaCor Rio 2023 exhibition.
Denilson Machado is a professional architectural photographer based in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Comfort and well-being in contact with nature: this is the proposal of Lake Refuge, an 80m² space designed by architect Leila Dionizios in her 5th participation in the CasaCor Rio 2023 exhibition.
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