Sunny, kind, creative, ambitious, determined and versatile. I am an Italian interior designer with a past in the world of ballet and a great love for poetry and elegance in all their forms.
I believe in sacrifice and hard work, in the fact that details make the difference and in life, we must never stop learning. I love my profession because it allows me to experiment with shapes and materials, to create new spaces for new lifestyles and to design emotions.
Projects
- Studio ReducedBerlin, Moabit district. An area of two courtyards buildings was then being redeveloped in a scheme for regeneration into artists' workrooms, apartments and co-working spaces with studios attached. Referencing to one of these small studios, it was asked to design a new exciting space configuration able to transform such place into a short-stay accommodation suitable for a young creative professional. The submitted solution should have been spacious, minimal, multifunctional, practical and take into consideration the issue of the existing piping attachment. This gave birth to three proposals for three possible clients, each one with a different creative personality. The three options - the first one being cosy, the second one minimal and the third one a colours blast, - gravitate around the concept of an art gallery. The frames hanging on the wall, however, do not "exhibit" paintings anymore (or not only), but highlight the presence of various furniture pieces. Below, illustrations of the second proposal - studio reduced for a designer.
- Voids of...cheese135 sqm on the ground floor of a commercial building in the luxurious and elegant Marylebone High Street (n°58, London W1) to transform into a "Cheese boutique". A flash project focusing only on the concept, this last developed starting from one key element: the conventional cheese texture. Through a food-architecture transposition, the circular holes of the stretched curd become solid voids impressed in thewalls or extruded from the floor and the ceiling. Aiming to build an experience that could engage thesenses progressively, space was divided into three areas: Zone 1. The cheese labyrinth, a fun exhibition space generated by the meeting of 'wall slices' having different shapes; Zone 2. The maturing cellar, where cold air beams illuminate the cheese stockpiles: Zone 3. The tasting and buying area, where the products are displayed on cylindrical tables and inside circular showcases excavated in the walls. Soft background music accompanies clients from the entrance to the purchase.
- Bathroom for the futureHow will an ordinary apartment bathroombe in 20 years? What will it look and featuresor our sensations inside that room be? It is not easy to understanding changes and anticipating trends is not easy, especially when it comes to such a space as the bathroom, whose configuration has remained nearly unvaried for decades. Nowadays people travel more and stop less, meet different cultures and ways of living, embrace new sharing economy models also in the hospitality sector, and the boundary between house and hotel becomes more and more blurred. Future trends in the sphere of interior spaces seem to concern the research of quality,sustainability, wellness, privacy and "mooding", namely the combination of harmony and sensory seduction. The project bathroom for the future was born to try offering a futurist solution to the demands that our rushing society is developing, this by creating an environment that could be both on and offline when needed. The concept is based on the idea of a sensitive vortex: to envelop the user with natural materials, sounds and aromas, potentially combined with technology comforts, so to guarantee the maximum relax and well-being directly from home. The smooth surface of thepolished stone, the softness of the sandplunging under the feet, the scent of mint and wet wood and the sound of water flowing and breaking on small rocks combine with water and energy saving systems, self-cleaning and/or heated surfaces, vapour nozzles and an interactive mirror, this last maybe connected to the entire home automation system so that you can control your coffee temperature while having your morning shower. Six sqm of user-adjustable cuddles inside a small city apartment for short-stays.
- Showroom LifeRedchurch Street, Tower Hamlets district, London. With the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, local slums fill with soiledworkshops and crowded factories. By the end of the XIX century, the furniture manufacturing industry becomes the leading sector in the area: from the making of wardrobes, cabinets and chairs up to French polishing. Today, the Redchurch Street area is exceptionally dynamic, characterised by a rich cultural and commercial variety. The problematic past in the sign of production left many industrial look buildings: small 3 to 4 storeys geometric blocks with a courtyard and a red bricks facade, signature of the Victorian era. Creative sectors of every kind take over at a commercial level, filling the streets withshowcases and causing the growth of the demand of local affordable residential solutions suitable for a mixed-use, which cancombine the house space with the work one. It is following this need and the request to create a setting having a bond with the quarter history and character that the project Showroom life was born. A compact, multifunctional, flexible, innovative and elegant studio flat, where the red brick combines with metal frames, polished concrete and luminist (a light blue luminescent stone) to recreate that industrial-retail mood typical of a modern furnishing showroom set up within the walls of an old factory. Glass doors and walls separate the different areas of the open space, while a plexiglass folding table acts as a window for the bed underneath it. A big interactive screen allows the lodger, who works in the design industry, to rediscover the physical dimension of the drawing gesture.
- Nips of MemoriesA Fiat 500, vintage suitcases and baskets, childhood scents and family traditions: here it is the new entirely Italian business model conceived to experiment in the English capital city. This small itinerant shop goes around London offering sweet nibbles made of dry biscuits to dip into a glass of wine. Anadjustable "hat" keeps in the shade the wine bottles exhibited on the roof of the car; a table unfolds through the car forward windows, allowing to use the small Fiat interiors as ashowcase. When it is time to get back on the road, above the right mirror a bunch of red "grapes" blows in the wind. A practical and simple design that keeps low the initial costs of the start-up without renouncing to poetry and congeniality. From the materials, through thepackaging graphics, up to the shop set up, this project talks aboutauthentic tastes and emotions, like the frugal picnic ones that Italian families used to have around their beautiful 1960' Fiat 500.
- H#stelMolise Boulevard, Calvairate district, Milan. The historical and crumbling Palazzina Liberty (ex Slaughterhouse Exchange) is subject to redevelopment in the sector of low-cost hospitality. The project brief asks to hypothesise a famous national or international brand as the works backer; each working group selected its brand on the base of the results of a research about current trends. Our choice was Instagram: we would have transformed the social network into a real location to visit and live
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Work history
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Interior DesignerCoreutica Sporting Club Todi
- 06059 Todi, Province of Perugia, ItalyFreelance
Christmas installation for the ballet school Coreutica.
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Interior DesignerRodlem Interiors
- London, United KingdomFreelance
Collaboration to the Christmas installation concept for Virgin Active.
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Skills
- Autocad
- 3D max
- Abobe Illustrator
- Adobe Indesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Sketchup
- Lumion
- English
- Teamworking
- Organisation
Education
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Postgraduate Diploma in Interior and Spatial DesignChelsea College of Art (UAL)
- London, United Kingdom
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Bachelor’s Degree in Interior DesignPolitecnico di Milano
- Italy
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