00:01How we play with color is really like a feeling we have.
00:07I think that we could not explain it.
00:11We love to create a mix of different feelings in each room.
00:17There's no rules.
00:20The client is a nutritionist.
00:24The brief of the client was to have his clinic now,
00:28but to change his clinic and apartment in the future.
00:33He had a lot of personality and loved their job,
00:37so they work a lot.
00:39So there's some service for the client.
00:42And there are separate, more intimate parts for him.
00:46With his bedroom and private bathroom.
00:51My name is Julie, I'm French.
00:54Hi, I'm Giuseppe, I'm Italian.
00:56We are owners of La Photosynthese.
00:58It's an architectural studio here in Naples.
01:02We are partners in life and in work.
01:13Here we are in Kyager.
01:15It's one of the elegant neighborhoods of Naples.
01:20It's a quiet area close to the sea.
01:25The apartment is in an old classical 90-century baroque-style building.
01:33Most of the studios of the doctor are cold.
01:36I mean, it's not like you are so happy to go to the doctor.
01:42So I think that he wanted to create this mood
01:45to give joy to the client that comes to him.
01:52When we came for the first time, it was...
01:55Cold.
01:56Yeah.
01:56Sad.
01:58There was no nice light, nice energy.
02:06It was a typical apartment.
02:09The idea was to create a box in a box.
02:12All the mezzanine and the kitchen and the bathroom for the client are in this box.
02:19And this box creates the private part of the apartment.
02:26The entrance is marked by a custom-made door that opens onto a pleated French marble reception desk.
02:35And I think that it's really the mix of vintage and modern pieces that enriches the space.
02:44There's all the space to put the computer and all the stuff that they need to work.
02:52We designed a custom cabinet back to the reception area.
02:56And it's in a walnut canna letter.
03:03In the reception area, we also add a mezzanine, which is a storage.
03:09It puts nothing that is used every day.
03:15In the living room, the apartment will gain its original height.
03:19The client had these two sofas, designed by Goran Malval, a Swedish designer.
03:26The room has been designed to valorise these two sofas.
03:30The wedding room originally, it was narrow.
03:33And we created an alcove to have some extra space to put the two sofas.
03:39We created a library that made a frame for the sofas from the wedding area.
03:48The bookshelf by Cartel subtly encourages moments of reading.
03:55A small door with a marble detail opened into a dark brown corridor.
04:00Getting visitors to the doctor's office.
04:04All the spaces are full of art, of design.
04:08So in the guest bathroom, you'll find a big statue that watches you.
04:12It's funny.
04:14The wedding area in the future can be a bedroom with these toilets.
04:21The small walnut kitchen eco-scholars use throughout the project, creating continuity across the spaces.
04:29A high shelf provides a practical space where the staff can enjoy their meals.
04:34The little kitchenette that we create in Walnut Canaletto is made to cook and to storage all the kitchen supplies.
04:44Under the window, we create more storage.
04:49The office bathroom is fully tiled in contrasting grey and blue tiles.
04:54We decided to put it in a horizontal way to give identity.
04:59If we wanted to do it for space, we would have done it in a vertical way to give height.
05:05But it's not what we were looking for when we designed it.
05:08We don't want to modify the idea of the space. It's a little space. It's nice like that.
05:15There is also storage close to the door where they put some cleaning products.
05:22The daughter office is the heart of the home, his personal world.
05:28The project Colored Palettes, consumed here, create a warm, welcoming atmosphere,
05:34enhanced by the presence of lots of wall lamps and floor lamps that gently illuminate the space.
05:42A small custom sink, finished in the same marble used elsewhere in the house,
05:48add a refined and practical detail.
05:54There is a space where he works.
05:58With Colored, we create another space where he visits his client.
06:04We know that he has a lot of bottles.
06:07We know that he has this library with a museum with a lot of things in it.
06:13So when we design the space, we design it for those things.
06:21We design the stairs to go to the mezzanine, to the private space.
06:26We decided to do a sculptural stair.
06:31And we create this balustry. It's really high to give some privacy for the doctor.
06:39The mezzanine is a small space.
06:41But in this small space, there's the bedroom, there's a little dressing and a private bathroom.
06:47We have a round window in metal that connects the mezzanine to the high ceilings of the kitchen.
06:54So we create this round window to have some light on the mezzanine.
07:01These three spaces are separated by the handmade metal and glass door.
07:08This kind of glass that we use on the mezzanine is a way to give privacy.
07:13So you can't see what's in the dressing, you can't see a person in the bathroom.
07:19But you don't close the space visually with a wall or something.
07:24So you have the light and the privacy.
07:27Like the other bathroom, we choose two tiles, red and black tiles.
07:34And we choose pink toilet.
07:37I don't know, it was intuitive again.
07:43We try to not just have a function, but also to give idea of museum, a little museum, some painting.
07:54Knowing the client, it was normally to not separate the function of the work and the clinic and the home.
08:00For us, it's just one space.
08:02Before it was a regular apartment and now it's a trip.
08:08It's true.
08:11In this project, there is no outside.
08:13We don't play with the natural light, we don't play with landscape.
08:16It's born from inside and stay inside.
08:20So all the beauty that you see, all the light, it's artificial light.
08:25At the end, you have a nice space where you want to stay.
08:29Even if there is no landscape, there is no natural light that's coming inside.
08:33You.
08:44The must have a pretty beautiful view.
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