A continuous contrast between dark and light: the beauty of one is defined by the absence of the other.
The interior design of this house was commissioned by a professional couple, an instrumentalist and an expert in Italian artisanal perfumes. Their working experiences share an instinctive propensity for experimentation that they want to express it at home as well: a space with bold tones that reflects their lifestyle without compromises.
The project takes inspiration from the interiors of a historic Milanese nightclub of the 1970s, where the unconventional use of steel sheets was an innovation for the time. The effect of this material convinced the clients from the beginning, both for its reference to the musical panorama and for its ability to manifest itself with shades of very varied colors and shapes.
In fact, the black iron walls are characterized by deep chromatic shades that refer to artistic interpretations and invite to concentrate on the beauty of darkness. The color white, in its perfection, highlights the boundary and balances the roughness of the black materials.
The particularly expressive steel was specifically selected and treated to preserve the original colors and oxidation of the rolling process. It has been folded and used to cover walls, doors and niches of the living room. Overlapping the sheets, some slots have been created to house linear lights which bring out the natural imperfections of the raw material.
The project reveals the frenetic clients' life that needs wide white spaces to appreciate the darkness of the deep personal corners.
The black shiny floor becomes the perfect background for the Carrara marble table designed for this project, as well as the white sofa of the living room.
