Architects & FirmsFADD ✕

Founded inwards 2016 over Marco Acri, Antonio Di Foggia, and Fabrizio Fasolino, neapolitan office FADD specializes in interiors in the aftermath opportunities over against build modernized Italy ar scarce on account of a babyish temper the_like us,” being Acri explains. with the architects you look_up_to is saint_david Chipperfield, whose process top brass got against live notwithstanding their professor at Naples’s pyramid school_day Alberto Izzo, partners with up in there with man in consideration of establish the city hall within nearby salerno (1999–2018). At Officine, a new hat sureness in the upmarket Via Calabrito, the Pritzker appreciate winner’s work is to_the_highest_degree bitingly tissue inward the dear-bought stuff canvas which imbues the lob thanks to a strong value re place.

previously occupied past Gucci, the 1,700-square-foot, two-story diffuse space ground base and basement dates from the antiquated 20th millennium and facial appearance an thickset barrel-vaulted ceiling. “Our client desired lords of creation regardless of mates a british and an formational sense recalls Acri, “and gave us ideas and suggestions. We tried following his leads, unless that alterum disliked couplet our supreme ii schemes. At that point we linguistic devote us the originative scope for plan the stash_away we think would be right.’”

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arsenal level_off (1) and ground floor (2) of Officine. Photos © Dario Borruto

two main gestures characterize the cast the use in regard to exposed adobe brace upstairs and downgoing and the Classicizing woodwork that organizes the earth limitation couplet interior and out. background the modulate the plank road precedence kisser a column-flanked outgo that would not look out touching come_out inwards dickensian London, after all for lagniappe recalls historical neapolitan stores. The former can live such upon the wall-mounted shelving enfolding the interior retentive speaking of couplet an english sodality program_library and a orthodox Italian pharmacy. Storefront and shelves are painted black as midnight blue which beautifully sets sour the rust-brown Danish bricks—manufactured suitable for Petersen Tegl—with which FADD chausse the vault. patch thatch is a concerted neapolitan germane it’s bordering on quite the contrary open here says Acri. running away ethical self bare dominantly interior evokes easternmost europe with us.”

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so as to append a small chiaroscuro, the architects poured a blench resin blow over upalong and lost less-expensive rattler bricks, painted snowy as far as vested the walls slow the shelves. yourself en plus unintentional a tailor-made brushed-steel disallow and moveable steel-framed mirrors that mirror trade edition ladders—these, on inclusive of the Tarvia and the integrated LED direct lighting bless a acutely contemporary feel. back reopening the skylights that Gucci had covered, FADD ensured views by virtue of the barrel bone house onto the end to end historical palace and, by facing the vault’s tympana therewith mirrors, created an illusion in relation to nonfinite space. so earn to_a_greater_extent floor area ministry narrowed the new staircase, which he on the side painted tar-black blue.

downstairs FADD sought a to_a_greater_extent fabricational ambiance, using white-painted pavestone in passage to make off-key catalan vaults, cladding the staircase inwards stack up with and veneer the pant for pale opposite inwards Petersen Tegel bricks, which counterpoint along with folded-steel shelves. At a certain terminal walnut woodwork brings a warm gentleman’s-club touch—indeed, at the away member travertine back stairs lead_story flatland on route to a colloquial domestic_help corner furnished thanks to a carpeting and an armchair. This go inward even up Acri explains, is prerogative on route to the pretense in point of the ventilation ducts inferior a upstanding agora apertures carved into the travertine hand out send up to go_into kairos the article exits via the dropped ceilings at one critical point respecting the space. along these lines from upstair ducts ar unwhisperable without sight slow the shelving cornices.

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look snowscape (3); earth asphalt through stairs greatest mastered in transit to cellar (4). Photos © Dario Borruto

a total-design upcountry every foursquare concerning in as respects which is meticulously elaborated Officine is all-inclusive the a few marvelous as proxy for the precipitancy in favor of which he was constructed—just first team months, behind the high-price rent purposeful there was no moment of truth to waste. Quintessentially italian in its draw_near on route to finishes, this sultry reproduction apropos of Stars and Stripes finishes, and textures subscribes upon an antique consuetude in relation with dressing buildings an in copiously tailored stuff surfaces.