I stayed in Denise place for 9 nights over New Year period with a friend (Denise kindly had organised a welcome bottle of bubbly and chocolates!!). The apartment is a really nice newly refurbished modern apartment in a great location, just on the corner of General Osorio in Ipanema, 100 meters from the beach.
The one bedroom apartment is smartly distributed: the bedroom with a very comfortable bed and a desk and some storage, the separate fully equipped kitchen, separate bathroom nicely located at entrance, and a small living area with a sofa bed and a folding dining table. The space of the apartment is very well distributed, as it is a small apartment, there is plenty of storage in the closet in the corridor from the bathroom to the living area. The corridor is nicely decorated with new clean mirrors.
Furthermore, and very importantly, the air conditioning unit was brand new and worked perfectly!! (not easy to find in Ipanema apartments). In the living area there is a roof fan that works perfectly with no noise at all, but the air conditioning unit in the bedroom usually was enough to keep the apartment dry and cool. All appliances in the kitchen were also very modern. The bathroom was very nice and clean and modern.
In general, all furniture was nice and modern and perfectly adequate for the apartment.
The apartment is on a 3d floor, so it is very peaceful. There are two lifts. The building is very secure. At the same time, the place is very relaxed and there is no problem if anyone come to visit you. The Porter is a really nice friendly guy, very helpful.
Denise and her mother were very helpful and welcoming and accommodating with a very late checkout time and a very early check-in time.
I fully recommend Denise apartment ideally for 2 persons (but easily can fit a 3rd one in the sofa bed), as it is very modern and everything works, the air-conditioning which is very important in Rio, works perfectly, the location is walking distance to everywhere in Ipanema (beach, supermarkets, restaurants, metro), and it is perfectly fine if you have any visitors, which most apartment buildings in Ipanema usually prohibit.
We definitely will come back to this apartment in our next visit to Rio.