Renovation of a small apartment of about 50 square meters on the first floor of a building inserted in the fifteenth century complex in the city of Vicenza.
The interventions on the internal walls were carried out in order to create a single environment where the functional spaces take their identity thanks to the volumes determined by the furnishings and the walls. A great emphasis has been given to the volume intended for a walk-in closet and small laundry room which explains its identity and its non-structural characteristic thanks to the wallpaper covering that partly dematerializes it.
The entire floor originally in terracotta and ceramic tiles has been standardized in order to visually enlarge the spaces using strips of opaque honeyed oak mounted in a herringbone pattern to recall historical laying methods.
For the furnishings we opted for a balanced mix of 40s pieces in dark shades of wood that stand out compared to the standard production containers made as little as possible characterized by the choice of white color and the simplicity and linearity of the design. Among the inserted pieces, the appropriately restored piano from the end of the 1800s stands out, placed in the most open area of the living room to emphasize the playful and social vocation of the “small square” delimited by the volumes of the cooking area and the bookcase