La Casa di Babette, founded by architects Cinzia Russo and Fabio Inzani, transforms the 300 sqm residence on the piano nobile into a modern nest. Spaces shaped around the needs of a young entrepreneur with three small children and a Labrador. The brief was clear: a free home, uncluttered by too much furniture, capable of accommodating the children’s daily life without sacrificing proportion, elegance or identity.
Structural interventions were kept few and discreet, given the extremely tight schedule, offset by a great skill in chiselling the interiors through original furnishing solutions and meticulous attention to the smallest details. In a respectful and innovative dialogue with the past, which La Casa di Babette was keen to preserve and ennoble. Among the pre-existing elements, the most decisive were the Venetian terrazzo floors and the sumptuous ceiling of the living room, decorated by two majestic 17th-century portals salvaged from an ancient church. “Once carefully restored, they became for us a powerful source of inspiration for every single choice of forms, styles and atmospheres” - Cinzia Russo comments.
In the kitchen furniture, the warmth of burnished brass, contrasts with the irregular wooden reeded panelling. The custom design of every element, from the extractor hood to the bench, composes a perfectly functional microcosm. “A compact space that we made autonomous from the dining room yet fully equipped for the needs of the young family, calibrating the proportions to the millimeter”, observes Fabio Inzani.
In the dining room it is the two antique panels closing the alcove wardrobes, that guide a search for lightness to balance and enhance them. From the chandeliers blending transparency and gold details with a delicate woven texture, to the measured design of chairs and table.
