Creating vignettes and scenes is a part of Girardi’s signature type. His agency was based in 2009, and specializes within the design of luxurious inns, eating places, and personal residences. From the D.O.M. Resort to the Infamous nightclub in Rome, the restyling of the famend Il Riccio restaurant, or to his subsequent mission in Milan, every creation embodies a novel imaginative and prescient that blends timeless class and innovation. Girardi creates atmospheres that inform the tales and histories of every place, whereas staying true to the genuine soul of every vacation spot.
In ever-evolving methods and totally different contexts he tries to “seize an setting whereas integrating a house into it.” His tasks flip to motifs from basic structure, which to him are strong as historical stone. Totally different objects, design parts, and fragments of various eras are woven collectively into the eclectic chaos. The result’s disordered sufficient to really feel energetic whereas staying upright. His course of is a pleasurable story to observe, the place supplies communicate, shapes intertwine, and colours inform tales of sunshine and the ocean. Although he’s now a cosmopolitan citizen of the world—he lived 10 years in Miami—his coronary heart is at all times drawn again towards his homeland of Naples, to which references in his work are widespread. Consider the power of Vesuvius and the magic of slender alleys in southern Italy.
On the heart of Antonio Girardi’s own residence, for instance, is the Inexperienced Room. It’s undoubtably the beating coronary heart of the mission, the place daylight is filtered via inexperienced glass. The room is a poetic drive, the place tree roots appear to have made their manner via the house, bringing with them a timeless freshness. Inexperienced makes its manner into each nook of the condominium: it’s within the partitions, within the materials, and within the lights. However it’s not solely shade that tells a narrative right here. The home is a stage of sunshine and shadow, of reflections that intertwine with reminiscence, of particulars that evoke historical tales. Each nook of the house is designed to tie magnificence to the essence of life.
Bonacina’s Nastro armchairs, with materials by Manuel Canovas, are gracefully organized and appear to be ready for somebody to sit down down and launch right into a dialog reflecting on life. Sandro Petti’s desk of glass, plexiglass, and brass, appears again to the Seventies, when the world was altering at a frenzied tempo.
