Casa LL, a cabinet de curiosité
Priscilla Tangari
Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
LightingFlos
Carpetcc-tapis
Broche brass chandelierDCW éditions
BROCHE M
WallpaperCole & Son
Leopard Walk, Malachite
TerrazzoDzek
SuspensionsFontanaArte

Product Spec Sheet
Broche brass chandelier
BROCHE M by DCW éditions
Wallpaper
Terrazzo
by Dzek
Suspensions

Casa LL, a cabinet de curiosité

SMALL as Architects

Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through—”. Lewis Carroll

From the encounter between the minds of SMALL, a multidisciplinary studio with a strong aptitude for interiors, and that of the young lady L, an entrepreneur in the world of design with a passion for travel, Casa LL was born, an urban retreat full of personality and eclecticism in the heart of an elegant neighborhood outside the center of Bari.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

Starting from a defined planimetric scheme, the team combined suggestions from the client and the most sought-after strategies to create a bold environment, unafraid to show dialectical and apparently contrasting references, but able to create a surprising and continuous compositional tension together.

Once at the entrance, the apartment opens onto a large and bright open space living room, where classic and modern, symmetrical and asymmetrical, slender and massive, sophisticated and flashy furnishings alternate in a harmonious dance of styles.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

The Hungarian herringbone oak parquet pervades all the rooms to enhance, thanks to its light shades, every furnishing and stylistic solution adopted. The entire apartment is enriched by custom-made elements and refined design objects that integrate with each other spontaneously, responding to the needs and requirements of each space.

The sinuosity of the design of the equipped wall is opposed to the classic austerity of the boiserie, made up of a slender vertical full-height white metal grid and massive drawers in heat-treated oak with brass details with deco references. The use of movable Wiener straw panels to mask the technological devices allows for the creation of a convivial, timeless environment. Still in the living room, immersed in a deliberate 70s inspiration, an electric blue velvet sofa is combined with the multicolor carpet by CC Tapis which sublimates the atmosphere with the neutral shades of powder pink, green and terracotta illuminated by the Broche brass chandelier by DCW editions.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

Shifting attention towards the kitchen area, the eyes are captured by the presence of a custom-made dining table in different materials and colors such as orange travertine, brass and terracotta by Fornace Brioni. The Setareh suspensions by Fontana Arte, designed by Francesco Librizzi, give light to the table. Immediately beyond the divider with essential shapes in iron and glass that discreetly divides the dining area from the rest of the open space, we find the kitchen, built using pink Portuguese marble and lacquered wood to deliberately mark a discontinuity with the surrounding environment.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

Continuing in the sleeping area, passing through the hypnotic corridor dominated by the black and white of Fornasetti's Malachite wallpaper, we find the master bedroom. Almost paraphrasing Carroll's words, the architects developed the idea of focusing on the importance of mirrors and the possibility of "traveling" through them. The blue "china" mirror panels of the full-height wardrobe duplicate the environment, giving it back an altered version, beyond which the privacy of those who live there is hidden. In contrast to the shades of electric blue are the darker ones of the wallpaper by Cole and Son with jungle, Sumerian references and the headboard of the bed in metal and Vienna straw.

Even the guest room offers experimental combinations. Alongside timeless vintage objects, natural fabrics and inlaid surfaces, the wardrobe with a particular tripartite crimson red structure polarizes the gaze to become the protagonist of the composition.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

The main toilet deserves special attention, where the terrazzo background in marble and concrete by Dzekdzekdzek and the plasticity of resin are confronted with a sturdy black cabinet with gold accents, dominated by custom made metal suspended mirrors with integrated lighting.

The architects' proposal distances itself from any rampant minimalism, intentionally challenging the stereotype of "less is more". Additions, juxtapositions and continuous references to styles from different times and places are the instruments that SMALL orchestrated in this project, giving back to its owner a voracious, omnivorous and magnetically unapologetic composition.

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari
photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

Team:
Architect: SMALL
Photography: Priscilla Tangari

photo_credit Priscilla Tangari
Priscilla Tangari

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