Everyone knows that one’s own house, especially if it belongs to an architect, is always ground for experimentation.
In my case, also thanks to the complicity of my wife Benedetta, many are the objects thought, drawn and realized for ourselves in the course of the years.
Among the many, I would like to point out the bed in the main room in wedge wood with perimeter benches, asymmetric head and lacquered bedside tables, the container wall wardrobe in the hall in ebony and Maplewood and the rigorous lacquered bookshelf in calibrated proportions, which becomes cd/dvd holder in a really unusual, but totally functional, way.
On the floor the essences dominate the scene in two different variants and finishes, from the industrial opaque varnished teak on the first floor to the really unique taste of the planks in oil-finished oak of the sitting-room in the mansard (Domusker).
Elements of varnished sheet-metals designed by myself – and skilfully bent by able artisans’ hands- guard, in different forms, books, newspapers and magazines and communicate with the “sacred monsters” of international design, such as the chaise-longue LC4 of Le Corbusier for Cassina, the armchairs ABC of Antonio Citterio for Flexform, the Tolomeo lamp of Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina for Artemide and the suspensions Scintilla of Livio and Piero Castiglioni for Fontana Arte.
Even the guests’ bathroom has been conceived in an original way thanks to the floral black and white wall paper and the highly collectable red and white bicolour ceramics of Althea.
In the dining-room, under the benevolent glance of a wall Buddha, a table 1-2 of Jean Nouvel for Zeritalia (now Cassina) with chairs Alfa of Hannes Wettstein for Molteni and FPE (Fantastic Plastic Elastic) of Ron Arad for Kartell.
