The project reflects on the domestic space potentiality to represent the personality and ambitions of its dwellers as opposed to generic, poorly characterized and sterile spaces. In order to do that some of the client’s family furnishings were kept, intended as tangible historical memory of three different generations. Pre-existing furniture were then integrated with the new project, generating a new landscape that modify the way of dwelling and the relationships between more intimate and representative spaces.
The living room, freed from the perimeter walls, is enlarged and made the central space of the house. Towards the more intimate spaces of the two bedrooms and the kitchen, the new furniture works as a wardrobe and storage unit, while on the central area a large library allows various activities by recreating a more intimate space for work and study, an area close to the windows and the terrace for lunch and one for rest and recreation. The large library takes up the idea of the urban front and just like a portico around a square rules and establishes character and uses of this large space.
Some niches are then created in order to display some curiosities and personal objects like in a wunderkammer: dark wood furniture, sideboards, crucifixes, paintings, portraits, a pendulum clock, old books, small reproductions of sculptures and half busts of Thinkers, Politician and Philosophers.
The Reddish color of the furniture is choosen in order to better expose and fit with dark wood essences of the 900’s century furniture, operating in a similar way to a museum display. Lighting also becomes central in the design: its curvilinear track plays in contrast with the composure of the entire environment.
Around the porch-library a large full-height mirror doubles the space allowing natural light to penetrate the otherwise darker areas of the house.
The kitchen is transformed into an iconic environment with the kitchen’s chrome volume around which cooking with the maximum of comforts or get together for moments of conviviality while the redesigned bathrooms are covered entirely with colored opaque ceramic mosaic.
Private commission
Date: May 2020
Localization: Milano, ITA
Size: 135 sqm
Contract value: – E
Program: Apartment renovationClient: Private
Architects: casatibuonsante architects
Collaborator: Martina Ciceri
Contractor: Sinis srl
Carpenter: LineoArredo srl
Blacksmith: Carpenteria Grandi srl
Tapestry: Casa del Tappezziere di Ernesto Spreafico
Photo: Louis De Belle
Date: May 2020
Localization: Milano, ITA
Size: 135 sqm
Contract value: – E
Program: Apartment renovation
Architects: casatibuonsante architects
Collaborator: Martina Ciceri
Contractor: Sinis srl
Carpenter: LineoArredo srl
Blacksmith: Carpenteria Grandi srl
Tapestry: Casa del Tappezziere di Ernesto Spreafico
Photo: Louis De Belle