When we began work on the project
for this residence we were acting as mediators between the needs
and tastes of the parents on the one hand and of the desires of
the children. A family
of artists; one who sings, one who acts, one who paints and one
who, while practising a profession apparently not artistic, is
sensitive and refined. The whole family lived in an absolutely
informal and unconventional way. The interior is simple and functional:
the materials used are almost all
craftsman made, hand-smalted Neopolitan tiles, iron for the balusters
of the intermediate floors which have to show the informality
of the owners and a search for simplicity, windows engraved and
painted by hand with designs by Serena Brindisi, rustic tables
in varnished chestnut together with a floor in pasta vetrosa (composite
coloured glass) and gold, and walls upholstered with rough canvas
painted by Serena Brindisi herself.