Scalpellino House / Biasol

Text description offered by the architects. The beautiful great thing about pure stone and the skillful craft of stonemasonry are delivered to the fore on this fashionable household dwelling. Stonemasonry is among the earliest recognized professions in human civilisation. Both a craft and artwork kind, stonemasonry is the shaping of tough items of rock into exact geometric shapes – the antithesis of its pure formation. The Bartucca household are successive generations of stonemasons. Italian-born Frank Bartucca carved out his occupation and fervour at an early age.

Growing up in Rome, he began working with stone at simply 13 years outdated, and the craft has been handed from technology to technology on this household enterprise ever since. The design of Scalpellino House showcases the occupation and fervour of the Bartucca household, whose legacy of Italian craftsmanship is the cornerstone of Bartucca Tiling and Construction. The purchasers needed a household dwelling that encapsulates fashionable residing and celebrates their household craft and heritage.

They required ample, seamlessly built-in storage, and beneficiant areas to attach with one another and to entertain. Stone is the centrepiece of each room, its distinctive magnificence, and character being an paintings inside itself. We glorified this magnificence and character by the exact design detailing and difficult craftsmanship to create actually distinctive joinery and areas that elevate and improve the pristine materiality. Bluestone clads giant parts of the outside and wraps into the inside the place areas movement effortlessly by the lengthy footprint. The bedrooms and bogs are on the bottom ground, and the kitchen, eating, residing space, and powder room on stage one.

Clad in honed bluestone, the doorway, backbone wall, and staircase is an anchoring ingredient that connects all ranges, in addition to the inside and exterior of the home. Cosmic Gold granite is the showpiece of the kitchen, eating and residing space, with the darkish, dramatic stone unifying the areas. It creates a moody really feel for the kitchen island, the place its exaggerated gold markings are heightened by a backdrop of black joinery. Extending the size of the eating and residing space, it conceals and integrates storage and offers show area.

Furnishings with luxurious color and plush texture soften the room, and sculptural objects from Artedomus’ New Volumes assortment are like fashionable artifacts positioned all through. The bogs and powder room are immersive areas enveloped with marble on the flooring, partitions, and vanities. The cool gray tones of Elba are delicate and calming within the ground-floor bogs, whereas the graphic gray and white of Concordia are stark and hanging within the powder room. Crafted to seem like one monolithic piece of stone, the impact is dramatic and revealed in a theatrical method upon coming into. Scalpellino House showcases and celebrates the Bartucca household’s stonemason legacy. Crafting design, stone, and artisanry collectively, the sculptural components are compelling on their very own, and much more spectacular collectively.