Villa Appia 1|2 | 2019 Rome

Category
Interior

Transforming the traditional into something unexpected: this was the new and captivating challenge in the recent renovation of an apartment in one of the greenest and most history-laden areas of Rome, namely the Appia Antica.
From the need to accommodate and enhance collections of furniture and works of art comes the imput of a silent container that can accommodate objects that, on the contrary, have much to tell.
A minimalist style, yes, but with deeply recognizable material traits. Iron, wood, concrete and marble are mixed, suggesting now a classic flavor, now a contemporary one. The apartment unfolds around an ideal central axis with no physical boundaries that divides the reception and service rooms.
The living room, the vital hub of the project, evokes a classic flavor, reinterpreting, with today’s eyes, the herringbone parquet floor and the red Levanto marble of the fireplace. Designed to accommodate design icons, it dialogues, through an iron window, with the iridescent single-material kitchen, encouraging the inhabitants to meet.
In an architecture with an essential identity that winks at the past, an “off-key” (or nuanced) note, inserted specifically to embellish the project, is in the recovery of antique or simply old objects (portraits, chairs, frames), thanks to the fruitful collaboration with “oh my lab,” which manages to give vintage essence to details seemingly deprived by time of meaning.