Vacation house in Tuscany decked out with Italian stone and marble
Alberese stones and Carrara marble are a number of the Italian supplies architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan vacation house.
The one-storey home is located within the small metropolis of Grosseto, set on a hillside that overlooks rolling vineyards and olive groves.
It belongs to a US-based couple with two teenage youngsters. After they bought the house, its ground slab, overhanging roof and retaining partitions have been in place, however work was nonetheless wanted to remodel it into a cushty summer time getaway – architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini have been introduced on board.
“The consumer had a deep data of Italy and Italian design, and is in love with correct particulars – we each needed native assets to direct the selection of supplies,” Magnusson and Todeschini instructed Dezeen.
Totally different-hued chunks of stone from the close by city of Alberese have been used to create what the pair of architects describe as a “thick pores and skin” across the exterior of the house.
The facade has additionally been fitted with a collection of full-height black shutters, which will be slid throughout to let in cooling breezes from the outside.
An extended hall leads from the entrance door to an open-plan dwelling space. The ground all through is inlaid with hand-cut terracotta tiles that alternate in measurement from row to row.
It is meant to emulate seminato, a composite flooring method originating from Italy’s Veneto area the place chips of glass, granite, quartz or marble are set into poured concrete.
Oak wooden has been used to craft the cabinetry within the kitchen and the bottom of the breakfast island.
Countertop and the splashback are comprised of pale marble that is quarried within the Tuscan metropolis of Carrara.
This materials palette and graphic flooring proceed into the house’s three bedrooms, which every have en-suite wash amenities.
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Wardrobes, chest of drawers and vainness models are comprised of oak wooden, whereas Carrara marble has been used to line sink basins and the decrease half of toilet partitions.
A splash of color is offered by the house’s door frames, a few of which have been painted teal blue.
They match the curtains within the dwelling space, the place there may be additionally a floor-to-ceiling bookcase designed within the 1950s by Italian architect Gianfranco Frattini for Poltrona Frau.
Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini hail from Milan and Verona respectively, however now collaborate on a lot of initiatives.
They are not the one architects who’ve opted to make use of native supplies – Escobedo Soliz constructed the foundations and partitions of a home in Mexico Metropolis from volcanic stone that was discovered on-site, whereas Rafael Freyre constructed a dwelling in Azpitia, Peru utilizing stones from the mattress of close by mountain and bricks fired in a kiln shut by.
Images is by Simone Bossi.