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Entwurf • Design Marcante Testa, IT-Turin
„Die Raumdecken sind allzu oft die
vernachlässigten Abschnitte der Wohnung“
Marcante Testa
Grundriss • Floor plan
Bauherr • Client Privat
Standort • Location IT-Triest
Nutzfläche • Floor space 180 m 2
Fotos • Photos Carola Ripamonti, IT-Turin
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 158
FLAT ARCHI-TEXTILE
IN TRIEST
Plenty of fabric turns this freshly renovated flat in Trieste
into a modern jewellery box on the Adriatic: for the tex-
tile-savvy clients, Marcante Testa dressed up a flat near
the harbour with finely embossed fabrics, powerful ori-
ginal designs and delicate colours. And thanks to subt-
le style quotations, a touch of the elegance of bygone
times still wafts through the new interior.
T rieste is like Vienna by the sea, a so-called Città mitteleuropea
located directly on the Italian Adriatic. For five centuries, it had
served as a seaport for the Habsburgs, whose golden era – the 19 cen-
th
tury – with its lush building stock and imperial and royal flair still con-
tinues to characterize the cityscape today. The 180-square-metre old-
town flat that Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa recently renovated
for a couple from Munich is also located in a residential building dating
from this era. Before the renovation, only a few double doors reminded
of the time of construction; most of the historical details had mean-
while been destroyed. The Turin architects wanted to restore a touch
of fin de siècle to the bright rooms but, at the same time, translate the
overall picture into a contemporary colour- and material concept. Since
the client herself works in the textile industry, fabrics play a special
role in the project called Archi-Textile. All textile surfaces are individual
designs by the Dutch fabric designer Aleksandra Gaca and were made
at the Tilberg Textile Museum. Now, delicate passementeries conceal
the radiators in the living room and fabric-covered cabinet doors pro-
tect the wardrobe in the dressing room. Coffered room dividers with
inset fabric panels in diamond structure serve to subdivide the large
salon. Even the blinds that filter the light along a long row of windows
on the façade side are colour-coordinated and custom-made products.
In keeping with the concept, Marcante Testa also lends a certain mate-
riality to other surfaces. A black and white patterned tile floor in the
bathroom and kitchen is reminiscent of textile designs produced by the
Wiener Werkstätte, fronts made of perforated steel drape the kitchen
only semi-transparently like a gossamer curtain. In a manner typical of
them, the architects’ furniture designs are defined by striking shapes
– a kind of cubism in pastel colours. Finally, the ceilings of the rooms
– in Marcante Testa’s opinion the all too frequently “neglected sections
of the flat” – match this with new stucco décor with a contemporary
ornamentation. All in all: plenty of good material for a remarkable
inventory renewal that combines the classic and the modern.
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