{"id":52913,"date":"2022-07-25T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/en\/inspiration-and-ideas\/?p=52913"},"modified":"2023-03-29T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:15:17","slug":"get-inside-in-a-porta-nuova-apartment-designed-by-luca-cipelletti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/en\/inspiration-and-ideas\/get-inside-in-a-porta-nuova-apartment-designed-by-luca-cipelletti\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Inside In A Porta Nuova Apartment Designed By Luca Cipelletti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Porta Nuova <\/span><\/em>apartment <\/strong>is the latest residential project<\/strong> of the architect Luca Cipelletti<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and has architectural precision<\/strong> and material opulence<\/strong> for an art collector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Discover The Porta Nuova Apartment By Luca Cipelletti <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In the latest residential project of the architect Luca Cipelletti<\/em><\/strong>, \u00a0it\u2019s impossible not to notice two other names on the door, the designers Nathalie Du Pasquier<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and George Snowden<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 who were members of the 1980s radical design movement<\/strong>, the Memphis Group<\/em><\/strong>. When Cipelletti first set foot in the Porta Nuova<\/em><\/strong> building\u2019s windowless, L-shaped attic space<\/strong>, which he\u2019d had been hired t redo, the door was labelled with the names of the movement\u2019s founding father, Ettore Sottsass<\/em><\/strong>, and cofounder Marco Zanini<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project was thought out and carried out <\/strong>with every detail<\/strong>, for example, the table surfaces <\/strong>are cut at 45-degree angles<\/strong> to give a paper-thin appearance; Marble <\/strong>is combined on floors <\/strong>and walls to look like a large hem. And a linear motif<\/strong>, like the frets of a guitar, runs horizontally across the apartment from ceiling to walls<\/strong>, across shelves and across the floor with almost painful precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally<\/strong>, the house had high, sloping ceilings with no natural light<\/strong>, and to make this house more livable<\/strong>, Lucas Cipelletti<\/em><\/strong> made a series of incisions in the front, sides and ceiling to create windows and skylights<\/strong> and added about 100 square meters of terrace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His client, an art collector, brought an impressive collection of photography<\/strong> but little else, leaving Cipelletti to curate a mix of blue chip art<\/strong> and furniture that complemented the gravity of both the architecture and the photos. The living room, overlooking the front terrace, features a White and Black sofa, a cocktail table, two sculptures by Alessandro Mendini <\/em><\/strong>and an Ettore Sottsass lamp<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dining table is carved from 3.5 meters of solid fossilized oak topped by a bubblegum pink vase by Carlo Scarpa and surrounded by chairs by Gio Ponti. Lucas Cipelletti <\/em>scoured galleries<\/strong>, auctions <\/strong>and stores<\/strong> to find prized 20th-century treasures<\/strong> like a Franco Albini rocking chair, Gio Ponte desk<\/em><\/strong> and dining chairs<\/strong>, and a gorgeous bubblegum pink vase<\/strong> by<\/strong> Carlo Scarpa<\/em><\/strong>. Some of the pieces nod to the house\u2019s radical Italian roots, such as two totemic sculptures <\/strong>by Alessandro Mendini<\/em><\/strong> and a set of ten Sottsass glass Vistosi vases<\/strong>, snagged altogether at auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that the place wouldn\u2019t be too stuck in the 20th century, the architect selected some contemporary gems for the mix<\/strong> \u2013 a work of art-lighting<\/strong> in the kitchen by Argentine artist Tom\u00e1s Saraceno, another by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in the dining room, and several of its own super-minimal furniture<\/strong>, like its paper-thin concrete shelves and a dining table carved from twelve feet of solid fossilized oak<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the master bedroom<\/strong>, a pair of 18th-century marquetry cabinets <\/strong>by Giovanni Battista Moroni <\/em><\/strong>nod to the rich history of Italian furniture making<\/strong> \u2013 a predecessor to so many other Italian greats, dotted around the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucas Cipelletti<\/em><\/strong> worked with Pace Gallery <\/em><\/strong>and the artist\u2019s studio to commission the work by James Turrell<\/em><\/strong>, which works in the master bedroom as a pseudo headboard<\/strong> and emits light and color in a one-hour loop<\/strong>. The chest of drawers, one of a pair, is an 18th-century masterpiece of marquetry by Giovanni Battista Maroni<\/em><\/strong>, and the set of armchairs and benches by the window is by Giuseppe Pagano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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