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Satis House
Satis House
Sliema, Malta
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Satis House
Sliema, Malta
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
This penthouse in Sliema guards the spirits of the old dimora and its former inhabitants while being adapted to accommodate the new owner’s needs.
The old two-storey house lay vacant for over a decade after the mother of the current owners passed away. It has now been converted into apartments behind the original facade in such a way as to allow the three brothers who were brought up in this house to return home.
This penthouse overlies the other apartments and retains a number of elements from the original house. The sculpted lions, once at roof level and crowning the composition of the old facade, were restored and are now guarding the new terrace at roof level. The old iconic ‘concertina’ doors were recycled and refitted in the new space to create the bedroom wardrobes and door to the en-suite bathroom. Other pieces of furniture belonging to several generations and to different members of the family, such as a Belle Époque desk and Biedermeier bench were also reused in the new interior.
All these elements handed down from the past now form a new composition with the contemporary space which consists of an L-shaped volume housing a studio and living area on one side and kitchen and dining-area on the other. These spaces benefit from a double exposure, light streaming in from the terrace on the living side and the back balcony on the other.
The bold kitchen unit in the centre of the long arm of the L-space works as a cooking island, bar, Dj stand, vitrine for the exhibition of precious art objects and library for ancient books. It is a form of sculptural installation that blends the boundaries between all these various functions.
Its slick appearance together with the gold-leaf cupboards and fridge, contrasts with the rough terrazzo floor and textured off-shutter concrete of the ceiling. Sharp industrial-industrial-looking storage cupboards run along the long wall of the apartment and mirror the more classical panelling on the opposite wall that evokes the fin-de-siecle character of the original house.
The distinctive character of the flat is the product of all these disparate elements that seem to have survived from different epochs, thus softening the edges of the newness of the interior and providing it with the depth habitually considered the domain of the passage of time.
The old two-storey house lay vacant for over a decade after the mother of the current owners passed away. It has now been converted into apartments behind the original facade in such a way as to allow the three brothers who were brought up in this house to return home.
This penthouse overlies the other apartments and retains a number of elements from the original house. The sculpted lions, once at roof level and crowning the composition of the old facade, were restored and are now guarding the new terrace at roof level. The old iconic ‘concertina’ doors were recycled and refitted in the new space to create the bedroom wardrobes and door to the en-suite bathroom. Other pieces of furniture belonging to several generations and to different members of the family, such as a Belle Époque desk and Biedermeier bench were also reused in the new interior.
All these elements handed down from the past now form a new composition with the contemporary space which consists of an L-shaped volume housing a studio and living area on one side and kitchen and dining-area on the other. These spaces benefit from a double exposure, light streaming in from the terrace on the living side and the back balcony on the other.
The bold kitchen unit in the centre of the long arm of the L-space works as a cooking island, bar, Dj stand, vitrine for the exhibition of precious art objects and library for ancient books. It is a form of sculptural installation that blends the boundaries between all these various functions.
Its slick appearance together with the gold-leaf cupboards and fridge, contrasts with the rough terrazzo floor and textured off-shutter concrete of the ceiling. Sharp industrial-industrial-looking storage cupboards run along the long wall of the apartment and mirror the more classical panelling on the opposite wall that evokes the fin-de-siecle character of the original house.
The distinctive character of the flat is the product of all these disparate elements that seem to have survived from different epochs, thus softening the edges of the newness of the interior and providing it with the depth habitually considered the domain of the passage of time.
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