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Florence, Italy

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Headquarter

Florence, Italy

Firm

Giraldi Associates Architects

Type

Commercial › Office

YEAR

2013

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

Photos

Francesca Anichini (11)

In the Santo Spirito neighbourhood, in Florence, among the alleys of handcraft and antique trade, in one of the most important streets, rises up an historical residence built in 1400 by the Antinori Aldobrandini families. They restructured it in 1800 and also recently modernized it.
Just across the carriage gallery at the ground-floor, you find in front of you a stone staircase decorated with marble statues and mirrored walls. The first floor is lit with natural light because of a glass wall which overlooks on the internal garden.
On the right, a door covered by mirrors hides the studio of Giraldi Associates Architects: a space divided in eleven different spaces on a total surface of 600 sqm, where the modern line of furniture contrasts the pompous nineteenth-century shell.
Passing through the entrance door, your attention is caught by the GAA sign, realized in blue led and located on a cement panel. The blue light crashes on the sofa “Superonda” made of white skay located under the panel and bumps into the warm blaze coming from the chandelier which lights up the rest of the corridor exposing a reception counter made of white lacquered wood. A big cow covered by cardboard supervises this space: it is a piece of artwork realized by the artist “Ziqqurat”. From the reception room, two doors lead to other spaces: the meeting room and the rooms dedicated to design.
The meeting room exposes itself in all its beauty: a vault of the ceiling is completely painted with frescos and at the core of the room a long table of raw wood gathers together twelve seats and through a wifi connection it is possible to broadcast presentations and videos on the monitor.
A marble fireplace underlines the necessity of creating a warm space ready to host clients and professionals. From the meeting room one enters into two other rooms dedicated to design: the first one, cobbled with parquet floor, looks out onto the street and has big windows that allow the light to come in, while the second one is characterized by a view of the internal courtyard of the building.
In this room there are three long lines of white lacquered wood desks, while on the floor there is a green carpet that succeeds in softening the magniloquence of the ceiling entirely embellished with stuccos. Crossing the hallway gathered up by two big wood doors finished with golden frames, there is the third room dedicated to design. Two long white lacquered wood desks welcome twelve seats, while at the core of the room there is a glass table that hosts samples and materials. Also this hall which looks out onto the inner garden of the building, stands out for the presence of a red carpet that makes the space welcoming and contrasts the magnificence of the marble fireplace and the stuccos on the ceiling.
Within this dynamic space, besides the design area, a place to relax plays an important role: this area has soft ottomans on a green carpet which recalls a grassland. Additionally there is a kitchen that gives colleagues the opportunity to interact during breaks. No details has been overlooked. Everything has been studied in all its details to give the opportunity to clients and designers to have an inspiring workplace.
In the last part of the building there are another four smaller rooms, one of these is the personal office of Architect Fulvio Giraldi. It is a reserved place that accurately reflects his dynamic personality because of the presence of some fitness equipment.
The enlargement of the Florentine office, the renewed image, the graphics and the web site represent for the studio of Giraldi Associates Architects a creative and functional change of a team that is in continuous evolution.