«We opted for a low kitchen,» says the architect, revealing the second «room», which actually opens to the room and the dining room. Scandinavian style, the kitchen has a tile countertop, as well as the bathroom, as well as a niche as useful as it is pleasant. «The depth of the niche allows all utensils to be saved and have a work surface dedicated to 100% to cook.»
A cozy and colorful night space
The bedroom, which is also open to the rest of the small apartmentis visually separated by a large curtain that provides the necessary intimacy and, when it is open, lets the light of the two windows on the east and west sides of the small apartment. «We design this room as a niche, using birch plywood on the wall to contrast with solid oak, a good alternative to more expensive species such as walnut.» With the same budget logic, Tom Locatelli confesses that he has postponed the installation of a glass screen to really isolate the bedroom. The dressing room, the only fixed element of the study apart from the kitchen, also allows to hide the technical elements, such as the trunk bed used as a warehouse. Around it, the Italian Diablo appliques of the seventies and the paper House of Hackney add reasons to this rather sober space.
A bathroom out of the ordinary
Last, but not less important, the bathroom is the favorite and most unusual room of Tom Locatelli. Housed in an added volume in the mid -twentieth century, which covers the entire height of the building of the small apartmentforms a kind of Bow Window where the shower is located, bathed by the light. «We wanted to break the orthogonality of the plant with this ultraluminous bathroom, especially in the morning,» explains the architect, who imagined a «cocoon» surrounded by a transparent oval door that lets the sun pass to the next dining room. The floor, the walls and the roof are finished in a pink waxed cement envelope to accentuate the softness of the stay. «Concrete is a material that evolves with time and light, providing warmth and grain that only he can contribute,» concludes Tom Locatelli. Evolution, Vivacity, Light: As in every corner of this small space, the bathroom closes the visit with a gold brooch.