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Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Tuesday and containing a selection of the most important news highlights. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. Nestled in an olive grove in Puglia, Italy, the four-bedroom residence is designed to resemble the region's traditional cubic dwellings. The venue's moody interiors stand in stark contrast to Villa Cardo, a bright white holiday home that Studio Andrew Trotter completed in 2019. "In the heart of busy Athens, the space is cool and calm." The bedroom is bookended by glass walls " a haven of peace," explained Studio Andrew Trotter. Sweeping city views can also be enjoyed from the main bedroom up on the sixth floor, which is bookended by glass walls.
The bathroom has views over the city of Athens This sits beside expansive sliding glass doors that allow guests to enjoy unspoilt vistas of the Acropolis citadel while they soak. Antique furniture decorates the penthouse's kitchen and dining areaĪt this level of the penthouse, there is also a study and a bathroom with a huge blocky tub. Heavy sand-coloured linen curtains bring a sense of warmth to the natural light that filters in through the windows.Ĭlose by lies the kitchen, centred on a wooden dining table and a set of Charlotte Perriand's woven Dordogne chairs. Read: Studio Andrew Trotter models Villa Cardo on traditional houses in Puglia The fifth floor accommodates a cosy living room, furnished with a plump beige sofa and armchair as well as a weathered sideboard topped with a couple of antique vases and a marble bust. The penthouse, which is set over the building's fifth and sixth floors, features surfaces rendered in lime plaster and paint rather than concrete to create what the studio describes as "a feeling of rough luxury". Twisted Corten-steel stairs lead down to the basement Vintage furnishings have been sparingly dotted throughout to soften the harsh industrial look of the space.
Guests must descend a twisted Corten-steel staircase to reach the basement, which has a markedly moodier ambience.Īpart from the illumination provided by a handful of pendant lamps, light can only trickle through to the space from the narrow openings left in the ceiling. Glass bricks let light through to the interior White paint was also used to finish the balustrade fronting the mezzanine-level workroom, which can be accessed via a set of spiralling concrete steps. And this is all set amidst a backdrop of century-old crumbling brick, the most important aspect of the interior maintaining the integrity of the original space was paramount to Morton's design.To lighten up the ground floor, the studio inserted a couple of new windows, inlaid an entire wall with translucent glass bricks and painted surfaces white. The loft, perched above, accessible by a hidden set of stairs is right out of a 1950's film, with rich red leather banquettes and tables overlooking the dining room below it is a place to be and be seen. The bar, spanning an entire wall, so tall a ladder must be used to reach the well-aged and perfectly curated wines from the list, is as inviting as one could imagine with a zinc top and gorgeous stained oak backdrop. Soaring 20-foot ceilings and a stunning chandelier with a thousand twinkling lights set the stage for what is to come. The seemingly gritty alley entrance to the simple century old brick structure is the perfect dichotomy to what one finds once inside the velvet curtain. Warm, intimate, and timeless the room gives one the sense of drama and approachable modernity at the same. Ambiance is something Amy Morton knows a thing of two about and The Barn Steakhouse shows this off like no other restaurant in the Chicago area.
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