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In the living room of the architect Rafael Urzúa Arias’s home in Concepción de Buenos Aires, Mexico, family photos line the walls and traditional equipal chairs from Zacoalco de Torres sit around a cement and Cantera San Andrés stone table.

In one of the guest rooms, a reproduction of a Sacred Heart of Jesus painting and an Art Nouveau glass and brass lighting fixture over twin beds; the night stand and the bed on the left are made by the Mexican artist León Muñiz.

In the old kitchen, Urzúa created a dining nook with a banquette and a cement and Cantera San Andrés stone table. A photographic reproduction of a José Clemente Orozco drawing was a gift by the artist to Urzúa. Credit Ana Topoleanu

In one of the corridors on the main patio, clay pots, a wooden sculpture of Melchizedek and an early 20th-century wood and woven palm bench. Credit Ana Topoleanu

A glass lantern from the studio of Mauricio Preciado in the town of Tlaquepaque hangs over twin beds carved by Muñiz and topped with mauve bedcovers woven in Oaxaca for Estudio Pomelo. Credit Ana Topoleanu

Glass, earthenware and ceramic pieces from the collection of María del Rosario Zambrano, Urzúa’s wife, line a set of shelves in the dining room.Credit Ana Topoleanu

In the dining room, a photograph of Michelangelo’s “David” hangs over a table covered in a pink cotton tablecloth designed by Estudio Pomelo and handwoven on a pedal loom in Oaxaca. The floor is made of early 20th-century vitrified clay tiles.

Earthenware pots in the home’s old kitchen are charred black from years of use over open flames. The painted tiles around the window were installed by Urzúa in the 1930s. Credit Ana Topoleanu

A George Nelson pendant lamp hangs from a restored painted-canvas ceiling in the front gallery, which was formerly Urzúa’s studio. Credit Ana Topoleanu

The home’s former corral, now used as a plant nursery, with an original cast-iron lantern designed by Urzúa hanging to the far left. The street lamps and wrought-iron balustrades, recovered by Urzúa from a demolition site in Guadalajara.

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