My home and office in Florence, Italy by Silvia

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Architect Silvia Allori renewed an apartment designed in the 70s by a Florentine architect, who thought of a space on a human scale in every single detail. The white laminate is predominant, and it has been used playfully on the walls of the living room to hide cabinets, a table, neon lights and plasters, which are never exposed.

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• Architects: Silvia
• Project: My home and office
• Location: Florence, Italy
• Photography: Simone Bossi

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The cabinets and the table disappear within the laminated niches, while a series of cuts in the space between the wall and cladding, filtered some neon lights, breaking down the rigid geometry of the volumes. The ceiling follows a total white volumes scheme, that is lightened by the rythm of some slender rectangular bars that mark the space and serve as an entering guide to the house.

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The structure is rigidly modular: the plan of the main room, revolves around two main widths (165 cm and 195 cm) and a depth of 113 cm. Niches, small and big steps, create voids that can be filled when needed into sofas and beds.

Bookshelves and pegs slot into holes in the walls to provide further display and storage space.

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Silvia Allori found this space and she completely felt in love with that.

Her choice to overhaul and interact with this space has been to install a gold metallic curtain to separate the kitchen work surface from the corridor. The curtain was made using an isothermal emergency blanket from a survival kit. It also allows the corridor to be used as a clutter-free seating space.

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She uses fabrics in neutral colors like shades of beige or black texture in order to create a soft a cozy atmosphere.

Even the selection of design pieces follow tghis inclination: the “evergreen” Parentesi (castiglioni), Tizio (Archizoom from Tizio, Caio, Sempronio series – Poltronova), Sottsass vases). All this “famous” objects are mixed and mached with curios collected from second-hand shops.

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About Silvia 

Allori was a partner at the Italian food-design studio Arabeschi di Latte prior to establishing her own studio in 2014. She now runs a creative consultancy service for interior styling as well as set, installation and event design out of her home.

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Allori Silvia is an architect with a passion for strange and unclear-function objects discovered in second hand shop and arourd her travels.
After graduating as an architect, in 2003 meets the food design studio Arabeschi di latte and start to be partner of the team. For more than ten years the studio has created a variety of food-related projects such as pop up cafés, interactive installations. Thanks to an architecture background and love for networking and research, Arabeschi/studio has also worked on exhibition design, setting, interior styling and visual. The team has created taylor made projects for fashion and design brands such as Fendi, Bally, Kenzo, Emlio Pucci, Zara, Bitossi, Discipline, Richard Ginori and Karimoku New Standards.

In 2014 Silvia Allori leaves Arabeschi di latte and start freelancing carrer. She offers creative consultancy service for interior styling, set design for exhibition/fashion show/fair stand, installations and event.

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Tags: Florence, Italy

Categories: House, Offices

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