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

Casa F+G: Home sweet home - Florence 2011

The intervention concerns the full regeneration of ground floor apartment belonging to an early '900 building, characterized by a long corridor that disengaged two bedrooms and a bathroom, leaving the kitchen and the livingroom at oppposite ends of the apartment. The project proposal revolutioned the planimetric layout making the bedrooms adjacent - supplied with a new bathroom – and creating a wider living area with direct access to the private garden. New countertops allowed the housing of the primary lighting source for each space, completed by branded lighting pieces. The final result is an architectural language rich of coontaminations between old and modern style, reinforced by the use of innovative materials, such as resin, together with more traditional ones. An original durmast flooring in planks of 25cm has been layed throught the whole flat, whereas porcelain gres in various dimensions has been used for the bathrooms. This style contamination is visible in the choice of the furniture, which alternates modern elements defined by clean lines to vintage and decò pieces together with custom made ones.

Casa M: Chromatic lines - Florence 2014

The apartment, one of a kind, is located in the heart of the city centre and it is part of a wide intervention of renovation: what it used to be a decaying crafts building has been transformed into several flats with a modern style. Protected from chaos and loud noises, this urban interior takes us to a “different place”, far from the idea of Florence we usually have, a northern european space, defined by public and private gardens.The property was handed to us at raw structural state, giving great freedom to the client to adapt it to his idea of a space to enjoy with guests and where to organize parties. Through little planimetric alterations, we created a wide living area, with spaces that fluidly succeed one another, composed by a double livingroom overlooking the garden, then a kitchen and a diningroom. Two bedrooms with private bathroom complete the apartment, together with a service area and a courtyard.The flat's pivoting room is the kitchen which links the diningroom to the living area, and from which it is possible to chat at the garden's sight. The spaces are flooded with light passing through the wide glasses. The fluidity of the space is marked on the floor by a guide made of eco-resin that draws several visual get-aways. The floor so fragmented is decked with a by porcelain gres 20x120 cm disposed according to the resin guides. This path leads the guest from the entrance to the garden, allowing him to measure the whole household. The finishes are rich and curated to the finest detail: slaked for the diningroom and the master bedroom, resin coating the two bathrooms. An array of furniture has been designed specifically for each space, as the master bathroom cabinet, resin coated in plum, or as the entrance cabinet finished with gold leaf. Special attention was paid to the lighting of each area with LED-strips dimmable, branded lighting pieces and scenic lights to exalt the space. The choice of RGB LED components further underlines the household conceptual project.