Villa Boemia is a prestigious residence, overlooked on Monteferrato’s hills. Its renovation has origin from the desire of the new owner who acquired the entire wine estate founded by Nils Liedholm, who, loving nature and wine, bought that estate to get away from the city. Thought shared by the current property that, taking care of vineyards as well, decides to redevelop this heritage to share its beauty through a hospitality project, in close contact with the territory of Monferrato and the wine production.
The design work of RKTTS started from the analysis of the Villa as we found it. It consisted on an historical housing unit to which a substantial enlargement, stratified in later periods, has been added. After analyzing the proovies and the few historical elements received, the project focused on the recovery of the original identity and on the search for the territory’s typical elements, subtracting and eliminating not-original ones. This operation revealed, on the construction phase, the some walls and vaults’s material nature, recomposing pieces of a local identity beacuse it was hidden by the overlapping finishes during the previous renovations. The enhancement of the "historical" character, so the restoration of the original parts meet the need of a contemporary residence, adapting the environments to the new functional program.
However, the project translates into a coexistence declared between the restoration of the original parts and the essential and contemporary character of the new one. Everything is in balance between rigor and research of detail, in this way two dimensions coexist in a process of continuous interaction, expressing the idea of recalling the Scandinavian origins of Liedholm and the genius loci of Monferrato, at the same time.
The color is therefore left to the restored material, among which bricks and tuff prevail, and to which are added stoneware, resin and wood, different materials declined according to the same color. All furniture were designed, exclusively for this specific project, from the table made by selecting piemontese walnut staves, to the desks of the rooms, in iron and antique oak. Furnishing and lighting elements become the counterpart, in a dialectic relationship between black and white, new and old, transversal to the whole intervention.
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