Project: TB Penthouse
Architects: Edoardo Milesi & Archos
Location: Torre Boldone, Italy
Year: 2021
Photographs: Andrea Ceriani
In this eclectic TB penthouse, designed for a couple of art collectors, different colors mark different functional areas. Every detail was thought and created on the desire of a comfortable, intimate, and tidy home.
At the entrance, an iron and glass compass enriched with plants for stripping shoes and coats filters the living area, a seamless open space loft overlooking the large panoramic terrace opened on the valley. Once inside, a progression of volumes made of different materials leads us to discover all the spaces of the house, sometimes hidden by secret doors and occasionally revealed by small details. Walnut and birch wood for the partitions, designed to separate and contain, oil treated oak wood for floors, a green resin island – floor, walls, and furniture – for the kitchen. In the bathrooms: colored ceramics only where needed and wallpaper in the courtesy one.
All the custom designed stuff is combined with classic design objects collected over the years, as the bedside Traccia table by Meret Oppenheim combined with the wooden bed Dodicesima notte signed by Luca Meda in the master bedroom, here freely proposed without headboard padding and, still in this room, the blue EDO chair by Kisho Kurokawa.
The very main elements of the living area the two polychrome armchairs Wink designed by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina, in sharp contrast to the slender lines of the DS-450 sofa by Thomas Althaus and Barrel chairs in solid wood by Frank Lloyd Wright for the custom designed dining table in the background, between the living room and the kitchen.
