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Two buildings in Rome merge to form boutique hotel Condominio Monti

July 5, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Condominio Monti by Studio Tamat and Sabina Guidotti

Italian architecture firm Studio Tamat and designer Sabina Guidotti have merged and overhauled two buildings to create this boutique hotel in Rome, Italy. The 900-square-metre hotel, called Condominio Monti, is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Kaja Osinski and Filippo Ribacchi. The duo sought to merge two properties city’s Monti neighbourhood to create new boutique accommodation. Studio

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Untitled Architecture completes overhaul of attic apartment in Milan

July 1, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Private apartment in Milan by Untitled Architecture

A metal beam, cylindrical staircase and narrow partitions are the simple solutions that Untitled Architecture has used to configure this small apartment in Milan. Occupying the attic of a residential building, the apartment’s formerly dark and cramped interior has been rationalised by Untitled Architecture to feature just a couple of structural elements. “The project was

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LCA Architetti models “primitive” House of the Archeologist on fossils

June 25, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

The House of the Archeologist by LCA architetti

Fluted concrete walls punctured by stone entrances and window frames characterise this minimal Italian house, which LCA Architetti has completed for an archeologist in Varese, Italy. Described by local studio LCA Architetti as “primitive”, the family home has a deliberately simple, rectangular form to create a monolithic aesthetic that evokes the owner’s collection of fossils.

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Dolce & Gabbana’s Rome store features a digital fresco

June 25, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Dolce & Gabbana Piazza di Spagna store by Carbondale features digital fresco

A digitalised fresco depicting soaring cherubs and angered Greek gods is the focal point of luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana’s latest store in Rome, which has been created by architecture studio Carbondale. Set within a 16th-century palazzo in renowned Roman square Piazza di Spagna, the Dolce & Gabbana store has been decadently designed by

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John Pawson completes gallery-style interiors for Milan’s Valextra store

May 20, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Valextra store in Milan designed by John Pawson

Simple plaster surfaces and grey stone floors help create a gallery-like setting inside the Valextra store in Milan, which has been overhauled by British designer John Pawson. One of several high-end fashion boutiques on Via Manzoni, the Valextra store is designed by Pawson to merge “minimalism, clean elegance and restrained luxury”. “The space appears rigorous, monumental;

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Curving terraces surround Villa Mosca Bianca by Design Haus Liberty

May 20, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design Haus Liberty has built a lake house in Italy with a series of living spaces connected to rounded terraces that extend out like petals from a flower. The studio, led by architect and Dezeen Awards judge for 2018 Dara Huang, designed Villa Mosca Bianca as a holiday home for a retired couple who wanted a place

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Monteverdi Hotel avoids “folkloristic approach” to restoration of medieval Tuscan hamlet

May 11, 2019 Paul Jebara 0

Monteverdi Tuscany boutique hotel by Michael Cioffi and Ilaria Miani

Crumbling buildings have been transformed into the boutique Monteverdi Hotel in Tuscany, which includes rustic bedroom suites and a cavernous spa. Monteverdi Hotel is the brainchild of American italophile Michael Cioffi, who has spent years reviving the hamlet in Val d’Orcia – a UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Italy. Old structures throughout the village, including

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Tom Dixon’s The Manzoni is a restaurant where “everything is for sale”

May 2, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0

The Manzoni Tom Dixon restaurant interior Milan

Diners can shop from their table at The Manzoni, a new Milan restaurant by Tom Dixon that doubles as a furniture showroom and the designer’s European headquarters. The opening of The Manzoni follows Tom Dixon’s move last year from west London to the Coal Office in King’s Cross, where the brand’s main offices are situated, along with a

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OMA and Laboratorio Permanente to transform two Milanese railway yards into “ecological filters”

May 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Agenti Climatici masterplan for Milan by OMA and Laboratorio Permanente

OMA and Laboratorio Permanente’s Agenti Climatici masterplan will turn two abandoned goods yards in Milan into public parks to filter the city’s air and water pollution. The Agenti Climatic masterplan will see the transformation of the Scalo Farini and Scalo San Cristoforo railway yards on the outskirts of the Italian city. OMA and Laboratorio Permanente plan to turn the former

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The Sister Hotel in Milan sits inside an ancient convent

April 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

A former nunnery in Milan’s city centre is now home to The Sister Hotel, which creatives Samuele Savio, David Lopez Quincoces and Fanny Bauer Grung have completed with eclectic interiors. Occupying a 16th-century building that once served as a convent, The Sister Hotel has been decadently dressed with a mix of old and new furnishings

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