The Sunday house

In Sunday Woman, Commissioner Santamaria, bored by the word games of his interlocutors, states: Intelligence used only to kill time is assholery.

The phrase came back to me during the first inspection, where the marble plaque fixed to the wall in the entrance hall of the building reads "Here lived the writer Franco Lucentini", that is, the person who, together with Carlo Fruttero, put the words into the commissioner's mouth.

Designing such an important space was an opportunity, so I tried not to just kill time.
It is a 400 square meters accommodation in a historic building with a 150 square meters terrace overlooking one of the most beautiful squares in the city. Inside the rooms are very large, perhaps too large, dispersive. What is authentic is the wooden beams of the ceilings and some small frescoed portions, the rest: the decorations, the floor mosaics and the wooden boxes have been replaced or remodeled by the previous owner. Overall, the house before the intervention appeared chaotic and unkempt.

In agreement with the client, the renovation work focused on three points: creating a less courtly environment, homogenizing the spaces of the house and creating dividers to make the large rooms more welcoming and usable. I therefore chose to replace the most damaged floors with a cement-based resin, use birch plywood and iron structures to create everything else, namely: the new dividing walls of the rooms, the entrance hall, the bathrooms, the mezzanines, the study, the whole kitchen and the lights.