Giuliano Andrea Grape among young Italian architects emerges for its original personality. Design across the board, designers, creative in handling the color and the textile element, attentive to every detail, safe in the mix design with art, Giuliano in a few years has achieved great success and media attention, even internationally, which sometimes it embarrasses him.
"I am fortunate to be called by young buyers like me, but also to mature couples with totally different needs. I like to change the project scale, overcoming structural constraints and limited budgets, to experience the maximum when I was given carte blanche to try to each space the soul. " Julian is at home in Salento, here spends his holidays on a farm, here has many friends.
"The daughter of the owners of this villa, known in Milan, invited me to discover another Puglia, the sea, not so old buildings with vaulted ceilings, but a typical summer residence 70s. The sea is in front, by a natural reed bed you get on a sandy beach in a stretch of rocky coast softened by Tarantino myrtle. "
Rocco Ferrara and Angela Latorraca, ask Giuliano a livable home throughout the year to monitor the activity of the Estate Venterra, 87 hectares of olive groves with a modern mill. "We love challenges," tell Angela and Rocco, "we felt the need to preserve the family property and contribute to the image of a new Apulia, where the management work acquires ethical connotations and focuses on new concepts like ' ecology, sustainability, certified quality. Even the look on the future of living, the Grape architect sent us, was for us an exciting challenge. " Giuliano, with its ZetaStudio team has imagined rigorous internal, almost citizens, not to feel in the wrong place at the middle of winter.
In a neutral box, on the tones of the stone floors, it has added to the contrasting dark gray iron and the blue indigo-block wall, covered in iron oxidized treated enamel, hiding the transition to the rooms, the office and the cupboards. This strong presence determines the new indoor distribution project, together with the other block, they brushed black granite, which joins complete the dining-kitchen area in open living. Concludes the designer: "I have selected different furniture in the same material, iron, from subtle sign, almost graphic, like the pair of micro-perforated iron chairs in the years '70, Flair, the Verner Panton for Poltronova sofa facing the fireplace , the mesh of the Cerruti Baleri chairs, library and metal tables Antonino Sciortino. All together they speak the same language of lightness. "
