The New Venice

I have posted about Venice previously, so it’s no secret that I love it. Its home to some extraordinary architecture and engineering steeped in tradition from an age of a gilded empire. It’s a place that truly peaks my sense of wonder. So for me, this latest project by Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa set in this amazing place, is more an exploration into an evolving city and mindset and how perhaps here, more than anywhere else, an interior must address the relationship with its history and its context.
The project involved both the communal areas, like the entrance hall and circulation, and the residential interiors, of which this is the first completed apartment. Prior to Marcante and Testa’s work the building had been stripped of its decorative architectural features. The graphic new panelling surrounding the staircase alludes to the exterior façade in a contemporary way perhaps reminiscent of Jaime Hayon or India Mahdavi, while the inhabited landing “foreshadows the intimacy of the apartments”.
From the architectural elements to the choice of lights and furniture, many of which are by the Venetian design hero Carlo Scarpa, Marcante and Testa have set out to narrate another New Venice.

Story by Nic-Kaiko Follow him on Instagram kaiko_design

photographer: Carola Ripamonti