Casa Soleto – a minimal trip house in Puglia

August 15, 2023

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Studio Andrew Trotter is a multi-disciplinary workplace engaged on worldwide tasks from structure and inside design to product design and design consultancy. With simplicity on the coronary heart of its concepts and a real perception that any design ought to belong to the place the place it’s constructed, works reminiscent of Masseria Moroseta and Villa Cardo rapidly grew to become icons throughout the Pugliese panorama. As we speak certainly one of their newest tasks: Casa Soleto within the coronary heart of Solento,Puglia. A fantastic ‘palazzotto’ lovingly restored by Studio Andrew Trotter and Marcelo Martínez

Casa Soleto

I got here throughout the house a number of occasions over the past weeks by press releases from Frama and Zara Dwelling, who collaborated with the designers or used the placement for its new collections. However principally I obtained actually interested by it by the Instagram account of Michael Stark: @lui-trova which rapidly grew to become certainly one of my favourites to observe on Instagram.

The studio took time with the renovation and punctiliously preserved the historic options of the home, whereas bringing it into the twenty-first century. Having saved a lot of the authentic flooring, the nonna’s (grandma’s) kitchen or the inner doorways (two of them being 300 years previous), Casa Soleto has all of the appeal and character you’d anticipate of a home from the seventeenth century.

Frama furnishings

A part of the furnishings and inside was chosen in collaboration with Frama. A choice of seating objects, tables, tableware, house items, mirrors, the traditional shelf library system, delicate items, and the whole St. Paul’s Apothecary self-care assortment, giving a contemporary but easy contact to the palazzo.

Components of the home have been over 400 years previous. Not one of the partitions have been straight. Previously, the
room behind the kitchen was a chapel, so the household dwelling throughout the palazzo didn’t want to depart the home to hope. All the house was a labyrinth. To entry the bedrooms, one needed to undergo the entrance patio and up the skin staircase—an previous home’s appeal as I bear in mind from the previous home of the grandmother of my youngsters.

The renovation

Old fashioned rest room fittings have been included, inner doorways have been restored, and artisan woodworkers from Lecce recreated exterior doorways. The flooring was saved wherever attainable, in addition to the kitchen. The partitions are superbly plastered, easy to the contact, but filled with texture. Colours performed a central function as some make areas really feel mild, others moody.

Stunning jute rugs from Armadillo & Co. gave a contact of softness to the onerous flooring. Native artisans made linen upholstery and curtains. Distinctive items of vintage furnishings like an XVIII century walnut eating desk have been salvaged from a monastery in Abruzzo, and a late XVIII/ early XIX century crimson wardrobe was sourced from Lombardy.