Set like a precious stone among the soft hills of Veneto, Arquà Petrarca is a village almost frozen in time. A church, a couple of squares, a few houses and the tomb of the poet whose name it bears and who spent his last years of life here. Just outside the center, an ancient country residence, dating back to the first half of the 19th centuryhas been renovated with extreme grace by Parisotto + Formenton Architects. The project maintained the original flavor of the building but, at the same time, revolutionized its internal layout by also exploiting what were once the spaces for animals to maximize views of the green landscape of the Euganean Hills.
“Worrythe main objective of the intervention was the creation of a residence designed around the panorama it overlooks and in the historic shell of the walls that welcome it, using a contemporary and timeless language” summarize the architects.
The living area it is located on the ground floor, in the spaces of the old stable still recognizable for the large arched openings, now closed with earth-to-sky glass and metal windows. They are still visible rough stone wallscombined with a shiny terrazzo floor. A partition and solid wood doors separate the conversation area from the dark wood kitchen, with central island and shelves for objects instead of wall units. The dining table is a piece with a Nordic flavour, chosen to lighten the whole. The rooms open onto the private garden.
On the first floor, reachable by an internal staircase with two flights, there are the bathrooms and bedrooms. The master one has an en-suite bathroom, created behind a wooden wall with a ribbed glass door; the second is accessed from the hallway and is served by a second bathroom and a wardrobe. Everything has a light appearance, the palette is earthy and the selected materials are natural – wood, plaster, stone – to give the whole a relaxed mood and away from temporary interior trends. The result is a country house with an unobtrusive modernity, in which the traces of the building’s history interact closely with the contemporary finishes.
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