ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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APARTMENT IN TURIN, ITALY sqm 250
Project team: Andrea Marcante, Adelaide Testa
Collaborators: Sara Fortin, Shino Hashimoto
Photographer: Carola Ripamonti/Filippo Piantanida
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It is about Decoration and how it can match with a kind of Architecture representing contemporary and international lifestyle. This is the key theme in the renovation of a 250 sq. meters apartment in the historical centre of Turin.
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Existing architectural features, still endowed with their aulic and decorative elements like doors, stuccos, hardwood floors were the starting point for an intellectual trip through two different expressions of Space: the Emotional one and the Cartesian–Intellectual one .
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Decoration and colourful wallpaper by Farrow and Ball offer an emotional and vibrating space, in which suspended and rigorous white volumes, made of plasterboard, redefine a geometrical inner shell. Architecture is now a subtle white and alive skin, cladding the walls as icon of contemporary essentialism .
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The Home becomes a stage where people and furniture are free to own and disown the surrounding context. Everything is pervaded by a subtle feeling of seemingly incompatible extremes, here traced into a delicate balance between reconciled contamination and coexistence of opposites which is a peculiarity of today’s trend.
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