Casa L+G: A step away from the sea - Lerici 2018

The story behind this job is as special as the relationship between the owners and their beautiful home: love at first sight during a random visit to Lerici. The apartment is located at the top floor of an early twentieth century building; the flat and its wide terrace provide a breathtaking view that include on the whole Golfo dei Poeti and Portovenere. We access the flat through the big terrace-garden where an outdoor shower hidden under a tree and a wooden alcoved straucture where the owners love to spend summer nights togerther with their friends. The apartment, with free sight on all sides, is invaded by light and it is composed of a double living area that welcomes the guest as soon as he enters: the transitional dining area and the livingroom more reserved and intimate. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms and the kitchen complete the flat. All the living area and the master bedroom overlook Lerici's sea shore: a sequence of panoramic views impress the guest that might lean over. The interior design intervention has been conservative in order to give value and restore the original features of the property, updating its language with new materials and contemporary solutions. Keeping good contact with the owners has allowed us to make the most of all spaces through made to measure furniture pieces and wardrobes. The two bathrooms are characterized by the alternation of resin and gres porcellanato and mosaic: in the bathroom with shower as in the kitchen we inserted in the wall depth some 20x20 tiles, decorated with flying cars designed by Piero Fornasetti. The flooring of the living area and bedrooms have a traditional parquet, which have been recovered, while in the bathrooms we preferred realizing an eco-resin carpet. The sea and its colors are at the center of the whole project as a constant presence that measure the space of the home and the view that it is surrounded by.
Photographer: Daniele Bianchi

Casa U+M: ‘800s Reloaded - Turin 2017

The property is located at the top floor of a ninetineth century building, in one of the noblest neighbourhood of Turin. The owners, a couple that used to live within nature, were wishing to get closer to the city centre and fell in love with this apartment for its silent and luminous views on the adjacent gardens. The flat needed significant restoration works, both on the systems side and on the finish side, and was showing all the charm of the bourgeois residence of that time: wide living areas, durmast oak floors, plaster molds on the ceiling and walls, wooden inner and outer casings. We based the project on these details and on the will to keep the feeling of another time. Through a preservative intervention that included minimal planimetric variations, we adapted the apartment to the needs of the new owners: a night area functionally separated from the living area; a distributing corridor that works also as a spine for the new systems; the wooden floors of the living areas have been restored by expert craftsmen, while the non-original floorings have been discarded to reacreate a material and stilistic continuity throughout the flat. Finally, we reconfigured the staircase that leads to the attic above the apartment. The result is a generous and comfortable residence, that reinterprets and renovates in a modern key the styles of the 19th century, and at the same time maintains the charm and the feel of time.
Photographer: Daniele Bianchi

Home F+J: All resin - Florence 2017

We were approached by the client through the Mondadori Facciamo Casa box, and from the “delivery architect” service came the project idea. The client's demand was clear: to fully renovate the bathroom finish and to replace the bath tub with a more comfortable shower cubicle, shortening the construction time. The bathroom is the main lavatory of a flat located at the top floor of an old building in Florence's city centre, a few steps away from the famous Piazza Santa Croce. Considering the need to minimize the construction process, we opted for a resin covering on both horizontal and vertical surfaces, overlapping the old 20x20 tiles. A wide sheet metal premolded, made to measure shower-tray was chosen, then resin coated on location to guarantee a materially uniform result. The resin, realized by NaturaeFirenze, comes in two finishes: a grey concrete resin Living for the flooring, with tones that recall the sandstone already present in the apartment, and an ivory white eco-mortar Charme with a warm and homogenous feel for the walls. The basin, fit in a beautiful marble surface, has been resin coated too, aiming at harmonizing the surfaces with the different materials. The final result is a modern bathroom, that combines contemporary materials and techniques with elements of the historical florentine tradition.
Photographer: Daniele Bianchi