Knoll

When intervening in a space such as this apartment, one should not interfere with the existing architecture. More than to propose, it was necessary to omit, to refurbish and integrate. It was essential to intervene in this apartment in the most clean and silent manner to better respond to its new needs.   The building where this apartment is placed was originally designed as an Hotel Particulier. The apartment occupies the entire 1st floor, which was originally dedicated to the social areas – namely 11 parlours, one of which was used as a bathroom. As the social floor, almost all of the walls and ceilings of these rooms were decorated with rich mural paintings.    When the first floor was transformed into an individ... More

This could synthesize the path which a couple of travellers, coming from Germany to Trapani, undertook driven by curiosity to learn about the places described in a book they had read.  Equally incidental was the meeting with us architects. During a pleasant dinner they told us to be interested in acquiring an apartment in the historical centre of Trapani.  When they returned after several months to Trapani in order to see some houses for sale, they couldn’t resist the fascinating charm exerted by an old and run-down two-level apartment, a few steps distant from the port of Trapani and in front of the cupolas of San Pietro church. They decided to buy it knowing that it would require a strong “vision” from our si... More

Studio Pierattelli Architetture has designed a 50-square-metre flat in the heart of Florence: a private residence where the absence of space is not a limitation but an opportunity to interpret the theme of contemporary living by combining absence and presence, function and form, comfort and perspective.The furnishings are all tailor-made and their millimetric precision has freed up spaces, that domestic life can now enjoy, as they are not occupied by previous structures or facades.A restrained entrance opens onto a surprisingly large, double-height room, in which the vertical dimension contrasts with the horizontal main room below, used as a living area. The arch becomes a scenic backdrop framing both kitchen and living room and d... More