Come Ristrutturare la Casa - April 2022
Come Ristrutturare la Casa features the contemporary penthouse in Bologna in the Occhio agli arredi section of issue 2, March/April 2022. Written by the editorial team, the feature focuses on the lighting scheme, designed to combine light sources and vary their intensity and colour according to the time of day.
Come Ristrutturare la Casa, established in 1998, is Edibrico’s magazine on home renovation, maintenance and efficiency, published every two months. In issue 2, March/April 2022, the feature on the contemporary penthouse, photographed by Thomas Pagani, opens on the terrace after dark. Two Tetatet lamps by Davide Groppi stand on the table. The name comes from the French tête-à-tête. Born of the designer’s experience in the restaurant world, Tetatet is a portable, rechargeable table lamp conceived as a contemporary alternative to the candle. It received an Honourable Mention at the XXIV Compasso d’Oro ADI in 2016.
In the dining area, Desalto’s Clay table is paired with Saba’s New York by Marras chairs. Marc Krusin designed Clay in 2015. Here, its round top and conical base share a black cement finish. The chrome-finished sled-base chairs come from Saba’s collaboration with Antonio Marras, which began in 2018. The fashion designer reinterpreted Sergio Bicego’s New York collection with drawings of faces and hands on the fabric upholstery.
Rimadesio’s Stripe sliding partition, designed by the architect Giuseppe Bavuso, separates the living room from the kitchen. Closely spaced, slender horizontal bars of extruded aluminium run across both sides of the glass panel, giving it the same appearance from either side. Here, the glass is semi-reflective, as it is in a second Rimadesio partition, Velaria, which conceals the wine cabinet beside the kitchen. When the kitchen lights are off, reflections dominate the surface. With the lights on, the room becomes visible through the glass.
The kitchen is made to a design by Francesco Meneghello in heat-treated oak and brushed steel, with a U-shaped layout incorporating a breakfast table and wine cabinet. The steel worktop and tap are by Barazza, which makes them in Santa Lucia di Piave, in the stainless steel district near Treviso.
In the principal bathroom, the Adda freestanding basin and Archimede mirror are by Salvatori, which has worked with natural stone in Tuscany since 1946. David Lopez Quincoces designed Adda with references to furniture of the 1950s and 1960s. Its ribbed walnut body is topped with Pietra d’Avola, hand-finished at the company’s factory. Archimede, by Elisa Ossino, belongs to the Fontane Bianche collection, named after a locality near Syracuse. The steel frame in gunmetal grey conceals a hinge that lets a section of the circular mirror fold back, and a small magnifying mirror is set into the glass.
