Villa Sereno
Residential,
Como,
2023
Scope
Interior architecture, joinery, lighting, and FF&E
Surface
410 m², over three floors and a garden room
Team
Marta Ruiz, Tomás Neves, Inês Cardoso
Photography
Clara Duarte
Completion
June 2023
A closed 1930s plan, opened room by room until the lake reached the back of the house.
From brief
to handover
The owners had spent two summers in the house before they called. They wanted the ground floor to work as one room without losing the walls that make it a house, and they wanted the stair to stop behaving like a corridor.
We removed three partitions, moved the kitchen to the north wall, and lined the stair in honed travertine so the skylight carries its light the whole way down. Most of the furniture is oak, made in Lisbon and driven up.
Study, in the thickness of the old chimney wall
Dressing room, book-matched travertine
Stair hall, lime plaster and blackened steel
Sideboard in walnut, made for the north wall
Materials
used
Travertine
Stair treads and dressing room
European oak
Doors, joinery, and floors
Lime plaster
Walls and ceilings throughout
Aged brass
Door hardware and light fittings
Belgian linen
Curtains and the living room sofa
Residential,
Como
“The stair is the part we did not ask for, and now the one we use most.”
Private client, Villa Sereno