The word "ON" in the project's title carries a dual significance, presenting itself not only as the antithesis to "OFF" but also as a concept of being "superimposed." This duality invites viewers to delve into the nuanced exploration of color's prominence throughout the entire project. It serves as a visual juxtaposition, urging one to see and immerse themselves in the dynamic interplay of colors across various materials and under diverse light conditions.
The carefully selected palette, comprising only three distinct colors (RAL 7011, RAL 7038, and NCS-S0580-Y80R), artfully converges on surfaces such as iron, plaster, canvas, and wood. This intentional selection and layering of colors contribute to a multisensory experience, engaging the senses in a symphony of hues and textures.
The design process was carried out together with the clients and grew out of suggestions from the surrounding contemporary world both physical and cultural. The objective was to dress the house in the couple’s desires. It became naturally and spontaneously populated by objects of their passions, such as the Bear Mask by Arsenio Rodriguez or their vinyl records that act as musical and also visual support with their colorful covers. Vynil covers are a perfect synthesis of an artistic and an everyday use object. In this microcosm, the ex-voto cross coming from a market in one of their favorite places, Mexico City was naturally placed in front of Cattelan’s “Finger” in scale 1:47 and near large canvases of RAL7038 painted by the decorator Tiziano Chiappa.
The project aim is to create a new environment within apartament's private space.
The new environments have been realized in between the many angles of the furniture, such as the metal sheet shelves or the table TAB, sculptural and even architectural, playing with plenty of natural light and sun rays entering thru the big glass windows and making subtle changes in color hues of the surfaces. So we would say that the environment and natural light is a co-designer of the space.
This work was an opportunity to question the nature of a purely interior design project because the appartement with a terrace on the roof, located in a newly built building, inhabited for the first time did neither require nor allow any changes in the floorplan. Therefore, the work consisted in thinking through the existing spaces and creating the vital space of the future inhabitants, a young couple loving modern design, music, fashion, contemporary art, pop culture, environment.
The project's uniqueness lies in its role as a living laboratory, where the interplay of color, light, and shape becomes an experimental journey. Existing within the confines of a predetermined floorplan, the design tactfully manipulates shapes and surfaces to amplify the impact of color. The landscape of furniture, including the distinctive metal sheet shelves and the sculptural table TAB, adds layers to this experiment, enhancing the visual dynamics.
Inside our living space, there's this captivating interplay of colors, light, and shapes that adds a unique character. It's not just a place to unwind; it's an environment with a vibrant and invigorating vibe. The color palette is like a visual conversation, adapting with the changing light throughout the day. It's a dynamic setting for what we love: music and art, infusing the space with creative energy and inspiration.
/33
Tigre, the owners' dog, posing into the living space featuring the focal points: the striking TAB Table designed by Davide Vizzini, the staircase with red iron steps and blue glass balustrade.
Massimiliano Lowe
A glimpse into the living space featuring the striking TAB Table designed by Davide Vizzini and vibrant staircase with red iron steps and blue glass balustrade
Massimiliano Lowe
In the foreground the TAB table by Davide Vizzini takes center stage, featuring steel legs welded and painted in the same color as the staircase's steps and other details of the apartment's furnishings.
Massimiliano Lowe
The two large canvases are painted in the same hue as the walls, they play with the perception and senses, appearing as a slightly different color, given their placement on a material that reacts differently to light.
Massimiliano Lowe
The same color play occurs on the BARR metal bookshelf, also by Davide Vizzini; identical hues react differently on various materials: metal, lacquered wood and walls.
Massimiliano Lowe
The metal bookshelf is made of sheets of different shapes that delicately rest on the surrounding surfaces.
Massimiliano Lowe
In the foreground, the TAB table by Davide Vizzini takes prominence, featuring welded iron legs that "bite" into the black walnut milled tabletop.
Massimiliano Lowe
The five legs of the sculptural TAB table, each unique, challenging the rationality and stability of their function.
Massimiliano Lowe
A view of the elements of the living room visually leaning and interlocking with each other.
Massimiliano Lowe
The iron staircase with the blue glass railing contains the kitchen furniture at its base. A significant effort in detailed design was required to coordinate the various artisans involved, including glazier, blacksmith, and carpenter.
Massimiliano Lowe
As you move towards the sleeping area, color darkens in the shade of the hallway. Hanging on the end side, the BEAN mirror by Davide Vizzini
Massimiliano Lowe
At the top of the staircase, the sign of a TOTAL gas station interact with the colors of the steps and the glass railing.
Massimiliano Lowe
Tigre is intrigued by the photographer, strolling next to the sofa EXTRAWALL by Piero Lissoni.
Massimiliano Lowe
A soft pencil and ink brush sketch of the TAB table by Davide Vizzini
Davide Vizzini
The sketch of the TAB table top was scanned, transformed into a cutting profile, and precisely replicated for cutting the solid walnut canaletto tabletop.
Davide Vizzini
a sketch capturing the moment of the birth of the "color on color" concept, which later gave life, among other things, to the form of the large monochromatic canvases hanging on the walls.
Davide Vizzini
The technical drawings that led to the construction of Davide Vizzini's TAB table.
Davide Vizzini
The 3D drawing and the surfaces flipped on the plane of one of the legs of the TAB table in welded sheet metal.
Davide Vizzini
Blacksmith Fabio Mussi, skillfully embroidering with the welder to construct one of the legs of the table.
Davide Vizzini
The prototype of one of the legs of the TAB table standing, observing the blacksmith's workshop.
Davide Vizzini
The project rendering of the apartment's living room, indicating the chosen colors.
Davide Vizzini
Floorplan of the apartment.
Davide Vizzini
The 3D drawing and the surfaces flipped on the plane of one of the legs of the TAB table in welded sheet metal.
Davide Vizzini
Two pages from the sketchbook drawn during the birth and development of the project's concept.
Davide Vizzini
A detail of one of the large canvases framing the same color tone used for the walls, playing on subtle variations caused by the change in material.
Massimiliano Lowe
A detail of one of the welded and powder-coated iron legs that "bites" into the black walnut walnut top TAB table by Davide Vizzini
Milano
Italy
Private
Residential
06/2022
90 mq
100,000.00 €
Davide Vizzini
Giulia Tamburini, Sarah Del Vecchio
Private
Ing. Renzo Buzzi
Mussi Snc Carpenterie Metalliche - Tommaso Colacino Falegname - Maxvetro Glass - Tiziano Chiappa decorator - Ennio Laudato Construction
Massimiliano Lowe
Curriculum
dvdvarch studio works on architecture, interior design and custom designed furniture and lighting for residential, restaurants, retail, hotels and offices.
dvdvarch is an international team of young architects committed to deliver a clear vision of the project.
The daily activity of dvdvarch Studio consists in keeping the heart of each project in focus without being pulled along the road that leads to the realization. Studio method moves forward by overlapping subsequent iterations of vision, execution, and revision, until the finished object is made.
The procedure may consist in smoothing the roughness of the idea or, on the contrary, in its enhancement and protection.
The firm's working tools are those of the architect who uses vision, drawing, material and digital models, the juxtaposition of materials, textures, surfaces, without ever forgetting the materiality of memories, references and suggestions of the soul.
