Home S: Refuge of the heart - Campiglia Marittima – 2022
This interior design project was born from the need to renew and furnish a beautiful apartment perched on the hillside of Campiglia Marittima. The space distribution includes a wide living area with three large windows from which to enjoy a beautiful view; adjacent to it, there are two spacious rooms characterized by vaulted ceilings with brick "on view" and stone walls. The customer, a long-time friend, wanted to include furniture that would create small, collected areas without affecting the overall perception of space and the feeling of being in a single large room. For the dining and kitchen area, a new peninsula element was added, to better define the work space, while a large table in yellow metal sheet - designed to measure - represents a singularity that catches the eye in a gentle contrast with the predominant tones of brick. Similarly in the second room, a space divider allows to create two separate environments in a fluid way: a first study area and then a bedroom in a tergal and more intimate position. The result is a bright, welcoming house, perfect to recover the energies, perfect to offer refuge to the heart....Photos: Daniele Bianchi
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.Photos: Daniele Bianchi
Casa F+I: Marble in love_Upgrade - Florence 2024
Interior Design ProjectA 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.
Photographer: Daniele Bianchi
