A Certain Kind of Elegance
A deeply tailored interior shaped by craftsmanship, materiality and a strong sense of character.
Designed in collaboration with architect Deborah Fassone, the project brings together bespoke joinery, custom-made furniture, rich textiles, colour and carefully selected pieces. Every element was developed specifically for the apartment and realised in close dialogue with Italian artisans and makers.
The result is layered and eclectic, but considered — an interior where craftsmanship and decoration are treated with the same importance as architecture.
- Scope
- Renovation, new layout, interior architecture, bespoke design, furnishing
- Made
- Bookcases, doors, kitchen, marble basins, lighting
- With
- Arch. Deborah Fassone
The work began with the plan.
The apartment already had two bedrooms. What it lacked was the right sequence of rooms. Walls were removed, new ones were built, and every relationship between spaces was reconsidered before a single finish was chosen.
Then every element was drawn.
Bookcases and doors were designed for their exact positions. Basins were cut from solid marble. Light fittings were made by hand. Colours were tested against fabrics, wallpapers against stone, antique furniture against new joinery.
Pieces from different periods share the same rooms. Proportion, material and a single, consistent hand hold them together.
Collected, not coordinated.
The plan, redrawn.
The same footprint, with a different order of rooms. Architecture came before decoration.
Nothing accidental.
Every junction, edge and alignment was resolved on paper before it was built.
Colour, considered.
Velvet, wallpaper, marble, lacquer and brass were chosen together, each tested against the others before anything was ordered.
Made for this apartment.
Bookcases, doors, basins and joinery went from drawing to workshop to site. Each was made once, for one place.
The hands behind the work.
Italian joiners, stoneworkers and makers. Without them, “bespoke” is only a word.
The whole, assembled.
Red doors, green marble, burgundy bookcases. Antique pieces beside new joinery, with handmade lights throughout. Rich, but never arbitrary.
Old and new, at ease together.
