Casa F+I: Marble in love - Florence 2022

I am very attached to this project because all the work was carried out in complete harmony with the client to whom I am linked by a long-standing friendship. The apartment, located on the third floor of a beautiful nineteenth-century Florence building, is large and characterized by a beautiful pentagonal room from which one can enjoy the view of the Brunelleschi Dome. The project, curated with the owner, wanted to maintain the patina and charm of the past, renewing the finishes and modernizing the equipment. "Marble in love" was born from the passion for marble that we find in the bathrooms and in the kitchen with its beautiful worktop in breccia of Capraia: a perfect balance of technology and quality details, modern and classic at the same time. The distribution of the house develops along a large corridor that leads to the living area, consisting of a first conversation room, a double living room and the dining room, in addition to the kitchen with pantry and the guest toilet and bathroom area; the sleeping area consists of the master bedroom with en suite bathroom and walk-in closets as well as a second bedroom - always double - and another bathroom with bath and shower. The warm and bright French oak parquet is balanced by the grey tones of the living area walls. Lighting - at times diffused and hidden, at other times punctual and protagonist - generates different environments and what was once a dark and austere home, today vibrates with light and energy.

Casa F+I: Marble in love_Upgrade - Florence 2024

Interior Design Project A few years later, the clients of this splendid apartment contacted me again to oversee the interior design project for the extension works. The clients’ wish was to redesign the living area, creating a new dining room in the pentagonal entrance space and a conversation lounge in the newly acquired room. A large opening connects the pentagonal room—dominated at its center by a circular table with a marble top, custom-designed by Umbrian craftsmen and illuminated by a beautiful Poliedri chandelier by Carlo Scarpa—with the new lounge, which develops around a marble fireplace, carved from the same slab, positioned at the center of a bookcase with open shelves and storage units in reeded wood, all custom-designed. The bookcase is backlit with perimeter LED strips to create a warm, enveloping atmosphere.The new space blends seamlessly with the rest of the apartment, as if the original project had envisioned the extension from its very first conception. “Marble in Love” always gives me something in return, every time I come back to visit it.

Home F+A: Novecento 2.0 - Firenze 2019

This airy and bright appartement is inhabited by a young couple and their little daughter. The idea behind the project started with the desire to reinterpret in current key the original planimetrical distribution of the house according with the specific needs of the new owners without distorting and deleting the typical features of the building of the early florentine twentieth century: we wanted to match chromatic and decorative choices of the construction period to modern solutions, both in the choice of some finishes and in the fournishing . The house consists of a large living area with an open kitchen, intended as the virtual center of the house and the heart of domestic life, three large rooms served by a bathroom, while entering the service area we find a guest bathroom, a storage and a loudry room. The kitchen is illuminated by a large glass door that overlooks a very special quarter-shaped terrace.From all the windows you can enjoy the view of the first Florentine hills and the nature that surrounds the house is re-proposed internally in the wall colors of the living area and in the choice of paving the whole house in oak parquet laid with a Hungarian plug or in running planks . The bathrooms stand out in finishes and in the choice of colors: the master one in shades of gray and black with a spectacular shower enclosure covered with large slabs of calacatta marble effect, while the one serving the living area characterized by white and rusty iron porcelain stoneware tiles on the floor and in the shower box. The careful lighting design creates different solutions for the rooms in the home. The harmony and the fruitful dialogue with the landlady have allowed us to deliver a renovated house, without denying the past but with a look to the future.
Photographer: Daniele Bianchi