England - London
Interior designer Francesco Meneghello expresses his creative vision through this industrial loft in London, which interweaves the languages of art and design.
This raw space, sculpted with light and shadow, experiments with new possible connections. The living space, illuminated by large arched windows typical of industrial archaeology, is organized as a central axis to give visual continuity. The vintage leather sofa embraces the lounge area of the living room, as do objects defined by artistic expressivity, like the wall rug inspired by Courbet's L'Origine du monde.
Its curved shape creates a separation from the large marble table, playing on rationality. As for the kitchen, the Milanese designer turns it into a geometric abstraction where the functional element becomes invisible. In the background, the olive tree emphasizes the sacredness of nature, framed by seats.
A mystical sense of meditation and contemplation, reinforced by a distorting "non-mirror". The staircase with its detached elements, a tribute to Carlo Scarpa's Olivetti showroom in Venice, leads to a mezzanine with a museum-like atmosphere, adorned with two armchairs and a painting opening a dialogue with art.
Upstairs, the large dressing room is inspired by Berlin's avant-garde boutiques, while the bedroom has a monastic feel, somewhere between a shelter and an alcove. The bed, overhung by a post-war work by Alberto Burri, draws on Japanese aesthetics.
The ensemble acts as a counterpoint to the marble basin in the adjoining bathroom. In this way, Francesco Meneghello reveals himself to be astonishing in his ideas, having fun staging his domestic vision between full and empty, symmetry and asymmetry, contrasts and monochrome, reflections and transparencies.
