A glass of water, a chocolate in a wood bowl and a green architecture book on a round table at Octavia Casa, Mexico City
Nº 08Hospitality PhotographyMexico City

Octavia
Casa

A house in Juárez that keeps its own hours.

Hospitality photography for Octavia Casa, a restored 1928 house in Mexico City that keeps its own hours.

A restored 1928 house in Juárez, eleven rooms above a courtyard.

Shot over two days in the hours before service, when the rooms still hold the shape of whoever left them.

A warm wood door standing ajar in a plaster-walled corridor of the guest house
A dining nook with a round concrete table, two caned wood chairs and a leafy branch in a stone vase
Two black ceramic vessels on the floor beside the painted 'Octavia Casa' name on a plaster wall
A dark framed artwork above a round red terracotta vase in the plaster-walled lounge
The brass room number 126 mounted on a plaster wall beside broad tropical leaves
A caned Chandigarh-style chair at a round table by a fluted-wood screen, late sun across the floor
Wood stools and a cushioned bench along a gravel courtyard, ferns climbing the wall at Octavia Casa
A guest-room daybed beside floor-to-ceiling windows onto the garden at Octavia Casa
A leafy branch in a sculptural stone vase on a round side table against a bare plaster wall
A matte-black rain shower head against a sunlit plaster wall
A water glass, a book and a chocolate catching the light on a round wooden table
A made guest bed with a green throw and wood cabinetry, a suitcase resting on the floor
A low bench and round table with a glass of wine by the curtained window of a guest room
Pictures — Jacob SigalaOctavia Casa · Juárez, CDMXFourteen plates