Creating vignettes and scenes is a part of Girardi’s signature model. His agency was based in 2009, and specializes within the design of luxurious motels, eating places, and personal residences. From the D.O.M. Lodge to the Infamous nightclub in Rome, the restyling of the famend Il Riccio restaurant, or to his subsequent mission in Milan, every creation embodies a singular imaginative and prescient that blends timeless magnificence and innovation. Girardi creates atmospheres that inform the tales and histories of every place, whereas staying true to the genuine soul of every vacation spot.
In ever-evolving methods and completely different contexts he tries to “seize an atmosphere whereas integrating a house into it.” His tasks flip to motifs from basic structure, which to him are stable as historic stone. Completely different objects, design parts, and fragments of various eras are woven collectively into the eclectic chaos. The result’s disordered sufficient to really feel vigorous whereas staying upright. His course of is a pleasurable story to observe, the place supplies communicate, shapes intertwine, and colours inform tales of sunshine and the ocean. Although he’s now a cosmopolitan citizen of the world—he lived 10 years in Miami—his coronary heart is all the time drawn again towards his homeland of Naples, to which references in his work are frequent. Consider the power of Vesuvius and the magic of slim alleys in southern Italy.
On the heart of Antonio Girardi’s own residence, for instance, is the Inexperienced Room. It’s undoubtably the beating coronary heart of the mission, the place daylight is filtered by means of inexperienced glass. The room is a poetic power, the place tree roots appear to have made their means by means of the house, bringing with them a timeless freshness. Inexperienced makes its means into each nook of the condominium: it’s within the partitions, within the materials, and within the lights. However it’s not solely coloration that tells a narrative right here. The home is a stage of sunshine and shadow, of reflections that intertwine with reminiscence, of particulars that evoke historic tales. Each nook of the house is designed to tie magnificence to the essence of life.
Bonacina’s Nastro armchairs, with materials by Manuel Canovas, are gracefully organized and appear to be ready for somebody to sit down down and launch right into a dialog reflecting on life. Sandro Petti’s desk of glass, plexiglass, and brass, seems to be again to the Seventies, when the world was altering at a frenzied tempo.
