INTERIOR DESIGN YEAR 2011 - 2012
RENOVATION & INTERIOR DESIGN IN TURKU ARCH.MAURIZIO GIOVANNONI
A CONCEPT OF RESTYLING The apartment is a little penthouse (about 65 mq.) in Turku, Southern Finland. Before renovation, too many walls and doors blocked the spaces and the passage of light, and the most beautiful view of the historical sites of Turku was on the bedroom side. My principal goal in this project was letting the light flow in and creating a relaxing living room where my customer could do his creative work. The partial demolition of walls was a natural consequence, along with reversing the location of the bedroom and living room. After fixing this, we decided on the overall “concept” together with my customer, organizing all the details that colored the white spaces. That happened during my customer’s visit to Rome (due to my impossibility to travel in that period), and via 4oo e-mails between Turku and Rome. The result is what I now consider my style: a blend of cultures. There is nothing that stimulates me more than to study different countries and make some cultural themes recognizable but never intrusive in the project. In this case, the floor is covered with parquet of white ash, the shelves are birch and the kitchen table is also birch but colored with heat. Wood is a omnipresent element in this flat as it constantly is for Finnish people, but the real attention is catalyzed by the nature theme pictured on wall paper, carrying colours and contrasts and a typical Mediterranean “courage”. The furniture itself is a mix of the 2 cultures and of past & present: the grandmother’s armchair is a piece of Finnish vintage from the sixties as is the red floor lamp. The arc framing the wall paper is the famous Twiggy by Foscarini and the suspended lamps are Italian as well:Olimpia by Ideal Lux. Everything fits together in perfect harmony!
“...It took me all of two seconds to decide that I just had to feature the cool and colourful renovation of this penthouse apartment in Turku”. Design Hunter by Kim “...a vibrant and colourful Interior Design for Finnish penthouse apartament “. Design Hunter by Helen “...A wonderful apartament in Turku where everything fits togheter in perfect armony”. Let me be inspired by Daniel “...love this apartment. It’s spaces like this that make me want to forget my obsession with neutral/natural decor”. Desire To Inspire by Kim
PLANS & SECTIONS,STUDIES & SKETCHES
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1- ENTRANCE 2- KITCHEN 3 - BEDROOM 4 - CLOSET 5 - LIVING ROOM 6 - BATHROOM
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kitchen
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1 mt
living room
bedroom
entrance
ante operam / plan & views
9째 FLOOR - PLAN
axes of project
ante operam / studies & sketches
Rearrangement of the rooms to have a living room with a panoramic view living room
bedroom
Demoliton of the walls to open the visual perspective and to let the light spread in. axes of project study of the axes of project ( plan )
structural constraints S
wood
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study of the use of color ( plan )
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green K
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9 ° FLOOR - PLAN 1- PARQUET FLOOR IN WHITE ASH 2- WOODEN SHELVES 3 - REFRIGERATOR 4 - WOODEN TABLE 5 - VINTAGE ARMCHAIR 6 - FLOOR LAMP 7 - SOFA’ 8- LIGHT TRACK SYSTEM 9 - VINTAGE FLOOR LAMP 10 - CHAISE LOUNGE 11 - BOOK SHELVES 12 - WALL IN WOOD STRIPS 13 - WARDROBE CLOSET 14 - WALK-.IN CLOSET
1 mt WOOD SHELVE
SUSPENSION LAMPS WOOD CHAIRS (FINNISH CONCEPT) PAINTED IN LILAC
entrance
post operam / plan & sketches
DECORS MURAUX
SECTION - SKETCH
SECTION - SKETCH
RENDERING
PARQUET FLOOR IN WHITE ASH
DECORATIVE RESIN DOOR
WOODEN CHAIRS BY FINNISH ARTIST
FINNISH VINTAGE ARMCHAIR
FLOOR LAMP (TWIGGY BY FOSCARINI)
SOFA’ ESPRIT
DECORS MURAUX BY CONCEPTUWALL
CHAISE LOUNGE (LE CORBUSIER )
SUSPENDED LAMPS BY TOM DIXON
WALL IN WOOD STRIPS
PHOTO SHOOT BY MIKKO ALA-PEIJARI
ARCH.MAURIZIO GIOVANNONI
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