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Franco and Micaela - Essaouira, Morocco 1991
Contributors
Contents
Founder & Editor in Chief Bianca Raggi
Editor’s Letter
Art Director Bianca Raggi
The Weird Interiors
Assistant Editors Andrea Fachini Giulia Prato Paola Teocoli
We as a House
Special thank to Franco Raggi Micaela Sessa
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Editor’s Letter Door/Closed Magazine begin with the porpuse of guiding the reader on a secret journey into the house in which I grew up. I was born and raised in a family where art and fashion were everpresent, my mother being a fashion stylist and my father being an architect. I lived in a dynamic and colourful house, full of bizarre, exotic objects, of paintings, sketches and photographs posing in harmony with one another. I have dedicated this issue of Door Magazine to my parents who always inspire me and teach me to observe things very carefully, pushing me to be passionately curious about my surroundings, to find explanations, insights and alternative interpretations.
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We as a House What does “House” mean to you? We bought this house 22 years ago, and it contains another house, or rather the pieces of another house lived before this one. Houses are like suitcases, that over the years collect, contain, order or simply overstock things that we love, things that we need or even things that we don’t need but we can’t throw away. How would you define your style and the style of the house? Our house is a box, a set of spaces, each one with his own different architectural character, but then you must enrich it with different things, different styles of different times, as the age we are experiencing in life. 22 years ago I was fascinated by mixing antique and contemporary. I believe that styles, as people should live, collide and create frictions, like sparks. Our house is expression of this controlled anarchy, the finale image is the result of this process of collections, collections that weren’t planned but accepted as a consequence of life.
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How was your house when you bought it? Before the renovation, the house was weird, twisted but also dusty, interesting and with so many unnecessary spaces. When you think about making a new house, you begin (I begin) with reorganizing spaces and volumes; then the hallaways and the rooms starded to flow into one another in a circular and dinamic path. What attracted you 22 years ago? and now? 22 years ago we travelled to India and we carried back home the desire of
oriental coloured walls that mingled with the geometric designs of portuguese tiles and with red and blue floors made of recycled marble. 22 years ago, and still today, we liked to combine opposites, so we bought the decorative plaster works, a bit “Baroque�, that were really cheap, and we put them on walls to make normal doors into more noble and rich ones. 22 years ago we wanted to reproduce the atmosphere of warm wooden floors of our family houses. On wood you can walk barefoot and lay beautiful carpets.
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Someone could say there’s too much going on in your house, too many different shapes, objects and styles. How would you reply? Today the house has gradually been filled and enriched with objects, paintings, books, small furnitures, lamps, vases, photographs, exotic tables and odd chairs, with evidences of meetings and passions, with bags hanging from the walls, shoes, clothes, with suitcases containing other suitcases.. The most important thing is that the space and the structure are able to accomodate all of these things and the people living in it.
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