Like a travel diary
Project Magra
Can a home be both a safe and welcoming refuge and a travel diary, ready to be continually filled with new adventures? The beautiful wooden house of Rosalba and Gian Paolo proves it.
For some people travelling, moving around, is something indispensable, it’s part of their nature, they can’t do without it. And that’s the same for Rosalba and Gian Paolo. They have traveled a lot and have built a house where they collect and keep objects that are stories and adventures.
A home that is a living, sustainable and welcoming place that encourages constant movement. Designed by Gian Paolo himself, with the help of surveyor Silvia Curi, the house is located in the Northern Toscana and develops around a central nucleus in reconstructed stone that encloses the beautiful open space, a space that seems to give breath to the entire building and to anyone who enters it.
It is the beating heart from which the other spaces start: the sleeping area, intimate and reserved, the bathrooms, the study, the amazing porch with the varnished wooden pergola, a much-loved space for its gaze on Nature, on plants that come from every part of the world, beautiful in their harmonious diversity.
Rosalba loves flowers and plants very much, and from every journey she has always brought seeds that have sprouted, turning into amazing plants, which underline the vitality of this house even more. They form an enchanted garden, a fascinating ecosystem, flooded with light from the large windows.
This house has an essential, practical, comfortable but creative aesthetic, which is reflected in the choice of furnishings and in the enchanting interiors, which are real albums of memories: South America, Africa, the Far East, India, Greece, geographical maps, Arab daggers, Yemeni belts, religious icons and Madonnas, wood and characteristic or ultra-modern furnishings that coexist perfectly, demonstrating that freedom and respect for places, cultures and nature is always harmony.
Like a magical travel diary, each element tells a story, relived together. Exotic and local plants, luxuriant sprouts, the dog Rocco and the cat Lulù: everything speaks of rebirth, of life, of love for what is different from us. It is a house that gives hope, suggesting new ways of experiencing spaces, of inhabiting the world with respect for nature and for every living thing that inhabits it.
“We chose finishing stage “Experience” so that we could be followed in the fundamental aspects of the house and be able to devote ourselves to furnishing it as we liked. In the choice of materials in the Boutique in Chienes, we were very much helped by the Rubner Haus consultant, who revealed extraordinary expertise, including tecnical competences.”
Rosalba e Gian Paolo, owner
Rosalba e Gian Paolo,
owner
