The apartment, by Mariella Minore, flower designer, and her husband, the interior designer Claudio De Leo, with her daughter Bianca, is located in an apartment building at the end of the 1960s in the town of Gioia del Colle (Ba).

 

The architectural project was carried out by rethinking the conviviality areas such as the kitchen and the living room and the more intimate ones of the bedrooms so that each component could independently use the different areas.

 

The main theme behind the interior design is the use of materials. The oak of the parquet, the Vienna straw of the Cesca chairs, the Navona travertine of the kitchen, as well as the box and metal mesh dividers and the Japanese raffia wallpapers, all together, evoke memories of past environments, reinterpreted here and made functional to more current needs.

 

The decorative elements and furnishings (both vintage and designed by Claudio) create a synergistic exchange of suggestions and give the rooms a contemporary language that does not hide the original character of the property.